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In fact, when I first learned that HBO was planning a series based on racing, I told my wife that they were making a big mistake – that there would be deaths. Do I have ESP? No. But I did know the statistics.
The results are from a study by Climate Central. And while we simply don’t know whether we’ll escape with just two feet or be washed away by a seven-foot increase, either way it’s really bad news for our coastal cities. According to the report:
The new foods will be the result of fierce demand and resource pressures on food worldwide, astonishing new technologies, and emerging trends in diet, farming, healthcare and sustainability.
When things get rowdy in the playground at school, the teacher may decide to step in. As it turns out, chimpanzees do much the same thing.
Donald Trump is well known for his support of animal charities in New York. So how did he react to his no-good sons, Eric and Donald Jr., going on a hunting spree in Africa that left a leopard, an elephant, a waterbuck, a kudu and a crocodile all dead last week?
Growing pressure from animal protection groups in the U.K. has persuaded airlines and other shipping companies that it’s not worth their while to be involved in the trafficking of animals for vivisection.
On Tuesday, a third horse died in the production of this show. She was being led to a stable at the Santa Anita Racetrack, where the show is being filmed, when she became spooked, reared up, fell back and suffered a head injury. Later in the day, she was humanely killed.
This past month the media reported that Ms. Amber Hansen’s art project, The Story of Chickens: A Revolution, was in violation of Lawrence, Kansas ordinances that protect animals from being harmed or killed within city limits.
Marilyn Walden was stepping through the remains of her home in Henryville, Kentucky, calling out to her cat, Bear. She’d been at work when the tornado ripped through her house, tearing up the living room and collapsing the bedroom.
“What do I know that would cause me — a reticent, Midwestern scientist — to get myself arrested in front of the White House protesting? And what would you do if you knew what I know?”
Hard on the heels of Iowa’s ban on undercover investigations of factory farms, Utah passed a bill on Wednesday that ban photographing farm animals or operations under “false pretenses.” Both houses of the Legislature overwhelmingly voted for passage, and the bill now goes to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature.
With several companies already racing to produce the first laboratory grown alternative to meat from dead animals, another contender has joined the field.
His human friends are not the only people mourning the loss of Lawrence Anthony, the man known as the elephant whisperer. At Thula Thula, the private wildlife park in South Africa where he was the director of conservation, the entire herd of elephants who knew him and loved him, came to his home to say farewell.
The reunion was bittersweet, however. Since Rohn’s discharge, the Hultgrens have been unable to find a rental home that will accept DeeBoe, one of a group of “bully breeds” that are banned by many landlords and homeowners associations.
A new study suggests that a velociraptor whose fossil was found in China’s Gobi Desert, was in the middle of eating a flying pterosaur, when she died. That’s because a small pterosaur bone was found in the gut of the relatively intact velociraptor.
The prairie dogs have to go. That’s the word from Frederick, Colorado. This small town of 9,000 people has passed an ordinance that requires home and property owners to remove prairie dogs from their land.
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has signed into law a bill that will make it an offence to capture undercover video of animal abuse by getting a job at a factory farm.
When two bears discovered the art of sledding at a wildlife park in Germany, they just went crazy with delight. After hitting the slopes several times, they dove into a play-fight, somersaulting through the snow together.
The World Bank has stepped in to help save the oceans. It is setting out to raise $1.5 billion from governments, the private sector and other groups to manage protected areas and reform fishing and other marine agreements.
How hard could a Tyrannosaurus Rex bite? Harder than anyone ever imagined! A new study by scientists concludes that T-Rex could deliver 12,800 pounds of bite – almost 20 times as much as they previously thought.