The thing that people miss, however, is that 20th century whalers never finished the job. The current target species in the 21st century is the smallest of the great whales, the minke whale.

In 2023, archaeologists from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research embarked on a mission to explore the effects of climate change on whalers' graves in the archipelago of Svalbard ...

By 1910, the populations of caribou and whales were greatly reduced due to overhunting by commercial whalers, contributing to further migration of the Alaskan Inupiat into the Mackenzie Delta region.

The American public in the early 20th century was in the grips of dinosaur ... and enlisted the help of local whalers. The nautical networking paid off in the summer of 1903, when whalers at ...