Killing whales for their oil may seem like a relic of the 1800s, but it went on until the 1970s. The reason? Whale oil was ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. On Dec. 20, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held a lease sale to auction off oil and gas drilling ...

The whaling industry helped drive industrialization in the 19th century, with whale oil used to light lamps and lubricate machinery. Even after petroleum replaced whale oil as an energy source in the ...

It was a whale of an announcement. After years of research, scientists said they had discovered an entirely new species of whale swimming right under their noses in the Gulf of Mexico. Yet as soon as ...

A newly discovered (and uniquely American) whale may disrupt the business of oil drilling off the Gulf of Mexico. But despite the critically endangered status of the "Rice's whale," Big Oil is ...