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Iceland has just approved the killing of 2,000 whales over the course of the next five years. The country's government is allowing whaling companies to slaughter 217 minke and 209 fin whales per year until 2025, sparking...

Iceland is often listed as the greenest country in the world, but one industry puts a black stain on their record – whaling. In 1986, the International Whaling Commission issued a moratorium on commercial whaling, but Iceland...

The endangered fin whales’ numbers hover in the tens of thousands, so any die off is significant, but since May of this year, nine dead fin whales have been discovered in the water between Kodiak and Unimak Pass in Alaska,...