Whaling truce in high seas rescue
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Japanese whalers and activists suspend hostilities in the hunt for two missing activists in the Antarctic.
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Rescue teams are confident of saving most surviving whales from a pod beached off Tasmania&#39;s east coast - the second mass stranding in Tasmanian waters in 24 hours.
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A resolution urging Japan to suspend the &quot;lethal aspects&quot; of its scientific whaling program was adopted Wednesday at global talks here but prompted an unprecedented boycott of the vote.
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An anti-whaling group's boat and a Japanese whale-spotting vessel collided in Antarctic waters Monday during violent clashes over a pod of whales, conservationists and Japanese officials said.
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A Japanese whaling ship on Thursday handed over to an Australian customs vessel two anti-whaling activists who climbed aboard two days earlier in protest, Japan's Fisheries Agency said.
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The International Whaling Commission passes a resolution condemning Japan's Antarctic whale hunt.
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Some whale populations are on the rebound. Can they be both protected and eaten?
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A Japanese whaling ship crippled by fire drifted off the world's largest penguin breeding grounds Friday, and New Zealand alerted other countries it may need help if the vessel leaked oil into the pristine Antarctic waters.
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A Greenpeace ship on Saturday confronted a Japanese whaling fleet that had initially planned to hunt protected humpbacks, the environmentalists said Â setting off the latest round of cat-and-mouse in a sometimes dangerous feature of the hunting debate.
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Pro-whaling countries meet in Japan to plan the lifting of the global moratorium on commercial hunting.
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FOUR swimmers confronted by a great white shark off the coast of New Zealand were saved by dolphins that came to their rescue. The three-metre (10ft) shark came
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The United States is pushing Japan to suspend its hunt of humpback whales, and the American ambassador to Tokyo said Wednesday an agreement to stop it may have already been reached.
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The polarized International Whaling Commission wraps up another stormy annual meeting Thursday as it considers Japan&#39;s bid to lift a ban to allow coastal communities to hunt whales.
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Two members of radical anti-whaling group held on Japanese whaling ship in Antarctic waters
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Alleged assault during boarding Two campaigners from anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd are "in custody" aboard Japanese whaling vessel the Yushin Maru 2 after boarding the ship in the Antarctic, the BBC reports. The pair were allegedly assaulted and tied to a radar mast during the action, Sea Shepherd claims.â¦
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RESCUE workers will know this morning if their attempts to save whales beached yesterday on Maria Island, off Tasmania&#39;s east coast, were successful.
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A large whale rescued in waters off Malaysia's eastern Sabah state by officials and tourists was found dead in the same area where it was trapped, WWF-Malaysia said.