Former Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater will celebrate 20 years of blogging with a party in July - and New Zealand’s Foreign ...

Despite being collected 160 years ago, the bones of the bowhead whale are still leaching oil. Typically, when a fresh whale specimen is collected, preparators will attempt to remove as much of this ...

Blue Whale deep-sea gas field project falters after Yoons impeachment ruling Blue Whale gas project struggles amid legal ...

The ruling could set a precedent that forces any new offshore drilling activity to take protections for the rare whale into ...

After World War I, in response to dwindling whale stocks and a shortfall of whale oil for its own market, some of Norway’s whalers returned to Norway’s own waters, establishing the foundation of ...

Tryworks -- brick oven furnaces used to render oil from whale blubber -- are first installed on ships, increasing profitability and extending length of whaling voyages. Prominent Nantucket whaling ...

Through the 18 th and 19 th centuries, whaling was driven by demand not for meat, but for whale oil, which literally lit the lamps and greased the wheels of the industrial revolution. Other whale ...

WASHINGTON— The D.C. District Court on Thursday found unlawful a 73-million acre offshore oil and gas lease sale in the Gulf ...

Great Whale Project, the first part of Korea's ambitious project of finding a potential 14 billion barrels of oil and gas reserves off the country's east coast, was found to have not enough ...