The Northern Lights, more properly known as the Aurora Borealis, have long enchanted visitors to Iceland. With their dazzling …
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Blood Money: Tsunami Recovery Funds Go to Japan’s Whaling Industry
Our Krista Mahr has a post over at Global Spin on news that nearly $30 million worth of Japanese post-tsunami aid is going to the country’s controversial whaling industry. Ironically, one of the (few) positive effects of the …
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Obama Takes Steps to Stop Icelandic Whaling. Could He Do More?
Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986, but some still flout international standards by hunting the animals. Japan gets nearly all the attention—and the reality TV shows—in part because it usually takes more than 1,000 whales a year, but it’s not alone. Both Norway and Iceland also hunt a few hundred whales commercially, …
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Why Fukushima Is Good for Whales (in Iceland)
In the past few days, two pieces of good news have floated to the surface from the morass of Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis. No, nothing has really improved at Fukushima; in fact, things have turned out to be worse inside Reactor 1 than TEPCO thought. (Read more about that over on Global Spin.)
But! Japan’s Environment ministry, …