The country's fiery liquid landscape shifts, on a massive scale. By Michael Dumiak Kristín Jóhannsdóttir woke at two in the morning, looked from her window over fields to the east, and saw curtains of ...

Weather reports made by mariners more than two hundred years ago may have relevance for research into climate change today. Some local scientists believe the records from whaling ship logs hold data ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the humpback whale population has recovered extensively over the past half a century.

Around two million tourists head to Iceland each year. However, most of them base their travels in and around the capital, ...

Just hours after his inauguration on Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for ...

Whale sharks are drawn to natural underwater features such as seamounts and canyons as well as artificial features like ...

One of the world’s premier whale-watching sites is Samana Bay in the Dominican Republic. During peak season, between January and March, over 300 whales come to the bay from many parts of the world, ...

The proposed rules would have slowed more ships to prevent collisions with endangered North Atlantic right whales.

Panama offers excellent spots for whale-watching, attracting thousands of humpback whales twice a year. It is one of only two places in the world where humpback whales migrate from both the Northern ...

Many members of the international community consider whale-hunting a barbaric practice that should have been banned decades ago.  But some countries have ...

Giant ships that transport everything from coffee cups to clothes across the ocean are often so large they can’t tell when ...

Whale sharks, despite being the largest fish in the ocean, still have pretty secretive sex lives. What we do know about the reproductive behaviors of whale sharks is largely based on observations ...