The environmental group Sea Shepherd, known for its persistent pursuit of Japanese whaling vessels, ultimately lost its long-running campaign against the practice.

In 2007, Inuit whalers in Alaska discovered fragments of a century-old harpoon embedded in a bowhead whale, indicating it was the world's longest-living mammal and providing insights into its remarkable lifespan.

Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson's new novel, 'Himmelskörper am Rande der Welt,' is lauded as an ingenious masterpiece, exploring a massacre of Spanish whalers alongside intricate intimate and erotic entanglements.

Tens of thousands of 18th and 19th-century logbooks from whalers are providing data on how industrial whaling impacted bowhead whales and why some modern populations are more resilient.

Icelandic whalers have resumed hunting whales after a two-year hiatus, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from animal rights activists.