“We’ve made mistakes here”, says Gudyon Kristjonsson, a member of Iceland’s Parliament and former trawler skipper. Full Story

Over a quarter of all the deaths of endangered adult beluga whales in Canada’s Saint Lawrence Estuary are caused by cancer, local researchers have found. Such high rates of cancer are unprecedented in wild animals, apart from fish. Industrial pollution is

The lucrative shark fin market is contributing to the demise of the dusky shark, prompting West Australian authorities to try to protect the species. Fu

Coming off a year in which right-whale births were documented in record numbers off the Florida coast, researchers are hopeful for another strong breeding season by the nearly extinct species.

The whale was rotting and its flesh and bones coming apart when it was washed ashore; some parts were entangled among the tripods of the seawall overlooking the Maafannu Stadium.

The sunken tanker Prestige could go on leaking fuel oil until 2006, causing long-lasting damage to the devastated coastline of northwest Spain, experts said.

European Union subsidies totalling 1.4 billion euros (dollars) a year will doom the fishing industry unless halted soon, the conservation body WWF-International said.

Conservation officers and news crews in helicopters were searching for a whale tangled in fishing lines late yesterday off the coast of Western Australia. <

A lot of “It Happens Today” calendars list December 10 as the day the Inuit people of Alaska celebrate the Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales.

Gillnet fishing will be banned in federal waters off much of the Mid-Atlantic coast during most or all of the year to protect migrating sea turtles, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced.