The elephants are packing their trunks. By any standard, today’s decision by the Ringling Circus to phase out its elephant acts represents a seismic shift in the use of…
One of the six major glaciers being eroded from below by warm water What does it mean when two major studies this week tell us that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is…
Two events share top prize as game changers for the year just ending: The Nonhuman Rights Project's lawsuits have started a whole new conversation about how we relate to other…
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A rhesus monkey, named Petra, kept in a botched brain study with screws and a piece of acrylic waste buried in her head. Mice having their toes cut off without a drop of anesthesia. Others dying of thirst. Birds cut open without anesthesia. All of this, and much more, at the University of California at San Francisco, which experimented its way through 800,000 animals last year.
Claudia Flisi visited the Elephant Orphanage Sanctuary in Malaysia, which is helping to save Asian elephants from extinction. In order to remain open, the sanctuary encourages visitors and offers elephant rides. But this is no commercial zoo; its mission is to protect elephants who have been in captivity or who need to be relocated from forests where they are in increasing danger.
If you’re bewildered by things like “carbon offsets”, are trying to figure out what they’re all talking about at yet another summit (this time in Qatar),…
Bobby Roberts, owner of the Bobby Roberts Super Circus in the U.K., has been found guilty of causing suffering to the elephant Annie. But the judge…
It’s a bit like McDonalds hosting a conference on the obesity epidemic. You can’t help wondering who decided that the best location for what may be the world’s last-chance climate convention would be the fabulously wealthy Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar.
NASA has just informed us that their newest satellite, NuSTAR, has captured a pic of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy…
Forget the “fiscal cliff.” Unless dramatic, sacrificial action is taken right now, we’ll have taken the whole planet over the environmental cliff within eight years –…
Humans, we’ve been learning, sometimes have difficulty remembering their vows, especially when one of them is on a tour of duty. But penguins are naturally faithful to each other. And one particular pair of Magellanic penguins turns out to be among the most faithful of couples.
And you thought that the words “No animals were harmed during the making of this movie” actually meant something. (It depends on what you mean by the word “making.”)
Beautiful, affectionate, intelligent, emotional, caring animals at the Eden Farm Animal Sanctuary. [readon] Runs about 20 minutes, but you can watch as much as you like.
Who will be the new chairman of the Congressional Science Committee in the House of Representatives? Someone who believes what science tells us? Or perhaps one…
It has something of the feel of Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001 with the passengers on their ultra-pasteurized vessel and the Blue Danube Waltz playing in the…
If you’re eating a turkey from Butterball, the world’s largest such factory farm, chances are you’re eating a severely abused bird – beaten, kicked, thrown at…
Echoing Bill Clinton’s famous “It’s arithmetic” speech during the election campaign, environmental activist Bill McKibben is saying: “Just do the math.” On a lecture tour around…
The show was “Jeopardy.” The day was last Friday. The category was “Remember Bookstores?” The answer was: “A common sight in small bookstores is an in-house…
In the wake of shocking revelations about the care of the animals at Marineland, Niagara Falls, the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) has given…
With animal protection groups raising holy hell over Green Mountain College’s (GMC) plan to kill their two old working oxen and serve them up in the…
Well, only in the movies, perhaps. But here’s a real-life carnivorous sponge who lives two miles down in Monterey Bay, captures crustaceans with her barbed hooks,…
Last week, Mother Nature cast an early vote, with Hurricane Sandy reminding us all that there’s just one overarching priority for the next administration and the next Congress. This week another storm is brewing.
Last night, when President Obama spoke to his supporters and to the nation, he laid out his priorities for the next four years: