One day in June 2022 Chérine Baumgartner, a researcher at the Icelandic Orca Project, was watching from a dinghy as a pod of killer whales fed on herring—when she noticed something very odd about what ...

Killer whales are among the oceans’ top predators. But in Iceland, pilot whales have them running scared. Filipa Samarra This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and ...

The trip was the first-ever record of a migration between the two countries. A pod of Orca whales has made an unprecedented trip from Iceland to Genoa, Italy, according to a nonprofit organization ...

LONDON — Iceland’s government said Tuesday that it has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation’s last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year. Animal rights groups say that ...

On Dec. 6, Iceland’s interim government announced it had issued five-year commercial whaling permits to hunt fin and minke whales. The permits, issued to domestic whaling companies Hvalur hf and ...