A new study shows that old whaling routes and Arctic ice still shape which bowhead whale populations recover today.

Recent public radio coverage about the Makah Tribe’s request to resume whaling pains me. It leaves me asking a simple question: Who speaks for the whale? The Makah people have a treaty right to hunt ...

Courtesy of Tiffany Boothe / Seaside Aquarium Last Tuesday, a 40-foot gray whale floated ashore on Seaside Beach, its long tail bobbing in the ocean waves. A necropsy on Friday revealed the whale was ...

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. — A gray whale found near Ocean Shores has added to a growing number of deaths across Washington this year, as researchers point to an ongoing pattern affecting the species. A team ...

The earliest documentary evidence of organised whaling dates back to the 11th century in the Basque Country. From there, the activity spread rapidly across the ports of the Bay of Biscay, from Galicia ...

Norway reopened its annual whale hunting season earlier this month, continuing a practice most countries abandoned decades ago. By the mid-20th century, industrial whaling had pushed many whale ...

The gray whale, which some locals affectionately named Willapa Willy, was found on Saturday afternoon after first being spotted swimming up the Willapa River last week. By Livia Albeck-Ripka The young ...

Humans’ spiritual relationship with whales is as profound as the ocean depths these extraordinary mammals glide through. In the Old Testament, a whale is the instrument of God’s will; many Native ...

A young gray whale that stunned southwest Washington residents by swimming about 20 miles up the Willapa River this week has died, according to Cascadia Research Collective. In a Facebook update ...

When tourists travel to Seattle, it's common to take in the Space Needle and the downtown skyline from Puget Sound. It's an itinerary that a newly arrived pod of killer whales appears to be following ...

The juvenile whale had swum about 20 miles inland into the Willapa River. Researchers say it’s part of surge in gray whale deaths. A gray whale seen swimming in the Willapa River in Southwest ...