More People Agree Climate Is Changing (duh)
With temperatures soaring across the United States, the number of people who say they believe the climate is changing is edging upwards. A poll taken mid-July…
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Ringling Caves!
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…
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Collapse of Antarctic Ice Sheet Irreversible
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…
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2013 Game Changers
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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Mother Carries Shot Pit Bull to Safety
It started out as the same hike that Andi Davis does every day to the top of one of the mountains near where she lives in Phoenix, Arizona. But this time, close to the top,…
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Liberators or Terrorists?
When 100 people, mostly women from various rescue groups, rescued 178 beagles from a research lab in Brazil last week, nobody called them terrorists. The five security officers…
The Right Music for Cats
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
Holiday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
The Yeti Bear
What to Do with the Everglades Pythons
They grow up to 20 feet long and can weigh 250 pounds. They can lay more than 80 eggs at a time (one who was just…
Feds Shut Down Slaughterhouse
Yet another undercover investigation, more video horrors, and now the U.S. Department of Agriculture has stepped in and suspended operations at the Central Valley Meat Co.…
Queen’s Corgis On a Rampage … OMG!
After playing their role impeccably for the James Bond sequence in the Olympics’ opening ceremony, the Queen’s corgis have disgraced themselves on the royal summer vacation at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. Her Majesty’s six dogs ganged up on Max, an 11-year-old Norfolk terrier belonging to Princess Beatrice as the dogs were all coming in from a walk.
Killing Prairie Dogs Is Not an Option
Flagstaff, Ariz., has decided to exterminate the prairie dogs around city parks. Are there too many prairie dogs? Quite the opposite, in fact. They are rapidly disappearing, and we are now down to about 2 percent of the prairie dog numbers that existed 100 years ago.
Me and My Big Bro
Kesho and Alf hadn’t seen each other for three years. And in that time, Kesho had really grown up. Now 13 years old, he weighs almost…
Do Pets Prevent Sudden Death in Children with Epilepsy?
A group of Brazilian researchers wondered if the presence of a pet in the home of a child with epilepsy might reduce their risk of dying from SUDEP. They found that of the 1,092 children in the study, not a single child living with a companion animal had died.
Geese Learning to Avoid Wind Farms
As they migrate across the U.K. from Iceland, pink-footed geese have changed their itinerary to avoid wind farms. That’s encouraging news to bird protection groups, who…
Top Trainer Blows Whistle on Marineland
“The seal was writhing in pain … blood coming from his eye … The dolphin’s skin was flaking off … The water had gotten so bad…
Freshwater Fish Collapsing
The rate at which fish are going extinct in North American rivers and lakes is rising dangerously and may soon double again, according to a study…
C.J. Chimp Heading to Oregon Sanctuary
Better news for C.J. the chimpanzee who broke out of her Las Vegas home for the second time and was taken to the zoo. She’s on…
The Celebrity Fur-Go-Round (updated)
November 2009: Lady Gaga to Ellen Degeneres: “I hate fur and I don’t wear fur.” August 2012: PETA in a letter to Lady Gaga after she…
Tommy Lee Gives SeaWorld a Drumming
Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee has told SeaWorld they can’t use any of his music at their marine circus acts. In a letter to John T.…
Vegas Chimp Escapes Again
Incredibly, C.J., one of the two chimpanzees who escaped from their cage at a private home in Las Vegas in July, broke out yet again. She…
Ryan the Bow Hunter
A major deer hunting magazine calls him “a diehard whitetail hunter.” (In fact, it’s the deer who dies hard.) Paul Ryan is a bows-and-arrows hunter, who…
Weekly Recap, August 11 2012
It’s the ecology, stupid … The movie shooter’s animal connection … parrots know which box has the food … Are cats wiping out birds? … India’s…
Blue Whale Poop–Bird’s Eye View
They’re the largest animals in the world. So it’s no surprise that they leave behind quite a trail of Number Two. The photo, captured by photographer…
Top Climate Scientist: ‘I Was Too Optimistic’
NASA’s top climate scientist says the projections he made to Congress back in the 1980s about how global temperatures would increase have come true. But he…
Colbert Takes Rep. Steve King Apart
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is made to order for Stephen Colbert. You could have bet that his idiotic remarks about why we should allow dog-fighting would…
Natalie Portman’s Vegan Jewish Wedding
Black Swan star Natalie Portman’s wedding last Saturday evening was all traditional Jewish – except for the menu. All vegan. [readon] Portman has been a vegetarian…