Iceland to begin whalemeat trade
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Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat, which campaigners say breaches wildlife trading rules.
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The wildlife protection arm of the United Nations announced Friday that it would allow Caspian Sea countries to export caviar, though at lower levels than in 2003.
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Australia is to send an armed patrol ship and aircraft to monitor the actions of Japan's whaling fleet.
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Activists intent on disrupting Japan's whale hunt offer a $25,000 reward for details leading them to the fleet.
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Fishing nations led by Iceland and Russia have blocked U.N. negotiators from imposing a full-fledged ban against destructive bottom trawling on the high seas. After weeks of talks in New York, a United Nations committee that oversees high seas fisheries failed to gain unanimous support this week for ending unregulated bottom trawling.
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A special meeting of the International  Whaling Commission began on Tuesday, with host Japan and  like-minded countries hoping the gathering will build momentum  to resume commercial hunting of the giant creatures.
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The U.S. State Department said on  Tuesday it had reached agreements with Iceland to turn over the  U.S. Naval Air Station at Keflavik, which is to be formally  closed on September 30.
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Pro-whaling nations are expected to take control of the International Whaling Commission this week, giving them a majority of seats on the panel for the first time since it banned commercial hunting 20 years ago.
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Anti-whaling activists hunted a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday, intent on ramming its flagship, as pro-whaling nations met in Tokyo to push for a return to commercial fishing of the giant creatures.
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Australia said Thursday it would send a ship to pick up two anti-whaling activists who jumped on a Japanese harpoon vessel from a rubber boat in Antarctic waters, offering a solution to a tense, two-day standoff on the high seas.
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Denmark aims to claim the North Pole  and hunt for oil in high Arctic regions that may become more  accessible because of global warming, the Science Ministry said  on Monday.
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The Flugleidir Icelandair Group said Wednesday that it would order 10 Boeing Co. 737-800s as part of the Iceland-based airline holding company's efforts to establish an aircraft leasing operation.
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FAROE Petroleum, the Aim-listed oil and gas minnow, will today be awarded exploration rights from the Faroe Islands' second-round licensing for two new sites in the North Atlantic margin area.
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REYKJAVIK, Jun 19 (IPS) - No whales have been caught under Iceland's  commercial whaling programme since October last year, when  whaling stopped for the year. Over a two-week period beginning in  late September, seven fin whales and two minke whales were  hunted, out of a quota of nine fin whales and 30 minke whales for  the period up to Sept. 1.
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Ships steaming into Boston harbor will soon shift course to avoid whales in the first change of U.S. shipping lanes to protect an endangered species.
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Iceland is under U.S. pressure to drop plans to offer a home to fugitive former chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is wanted for breaking sanctions against Yugoslavia in 1992, officials said Monday.
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An Australian customs ship could be used to pick up two anti-whaling activists detained after boarding a Japanese whaler in Antarctic waters, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Thursday.