The whaling ships have a permit to catch 227 minkes, Bryde's and sei whales this year in Japanese waters. Japan's last commercial hunt was in 1986 but it has continued whaling for what it says was ...

The film’s director, Robert Paul (1869-1943), was a pioneer of the British film industry in its formative years. The 1909 film opens on a whaling ship with a harpoonist successfully shooting a whale ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...

(March 6, 2025) de Crèvecoeur, in his 1782 “Letters from an American Farmer,” famously noted how the maritime economy of ...

How do these journalists craft arguments to compel readers? Pose questions for Margaret Renkl, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, by March 20. By The Learning Network Research ...

Australia has made sure the world is aware of China’s movements in international waters in the South Pacific, issuing daily location updates from trailing Australian Navy ships and spy planes.

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became a popular refuge for slaves fleeing the horrors of plantation life in the American South. In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the ...