Let us all agree right now: Baby harp seals -- those doe-eyed sausagelike bundles of puffy white blubber -- are just phenomenally, face-meltingly cute. So adorable and so helpless and so sweet-looking ...

In the 1970s and '80s environmentalists publicized grim photos of French and Inuit hunters in Newfoundland and other areas around the Gulf of St Lawrence, clubbing and often skinning alive baby harp ...

Harp seal pups dying on beach as winter sea ice fails Harp seal pups dying on beach as winter sea ice fails Inside the fragile world of Québec’s harp seals Inside the fragile world of Québec’s harp ...

A three-week-old harp seal stranded Friday morning on Long Beach Island is being cared for at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine.

MOSCOW -- Russia said yesterday that it was banning the hunting of baby harp seals, weeks after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was reported to have called the hunt a "bloody industry." The Natural ...

MOSCOW -- Russia said yesterday that it was banning the hunting of baby harp seals, weeks after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was reported to have called the hunt a "bloody industry." ...