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While scientists have been leery of attributing specific droughts, heat waves and other weather events to climate change, you can now definitely draw the connection. The big Texas and Oklahoma droughts, for example, are indeed a direct result of climate change.
PETA is reporting that all three companies have been paying for tests on animals in order to satisfy the requirements of the Chinese government.
Graduate students Erica Tennenhouse, right, and Amber Walker-Bolton were pleading for the last two monkeys in research at the Univ. of Toronto be retired to a sanctuary.
You care about animals but still can’t quit eating meat? Help is at hand, according to a panel of scientists at the annual AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) meeting in Vancouver.
Rick Santorum defended his earlier remarks that President Obama’s policies – specifically about the enormous changes that are taking place to the planet and our climate – are not “based on the Bible” but rather in “some phony theology.”
At the world’s largest science conference, scientists and ethicists presented the case for recognizing dolphins and whales as non-human persons.
As the Grateful Dead would say, What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been. Or in our case, what a long, strange week it’s been.
Jon Stewart: “As a president, you want a guy who makes good decisions. Putting your dog on the roof of your car…is not a good idea. That’s it. End of story. I don’t care about anything else.”
The total, so far, of 177 dolphins (125 of whom have died) is nearly five times what’s normal, and there’s no explanation.
Right now, the entire Pekingese breed is in crisis. It is so plagued by health issues and inbreeding that many people say the breed may not even survive.
Czech scientist Jarosalv Flegr is an unconventional yet meticulous scientist who has thought for years that parasites are messing with his mind and manipulating his personality.
Now enter a competing bill, sponsored by state Rep. Amy Paulin and backed by the ASPCA, that would that would, instead, allow New York State shelters to kill animals immediately if staff determine that the animals are in “psychological pain.”
Mr. Buddy Rose isn’t going to be fathering any pups. He’s never going to win any honors in the show ring, either. But when it comes to Best in Glow, he just shines.
Fast food giant McDonald’s and the Humane Society of the United States have issued a joint statement announcing the company’s intention to get out of the business of gestation crates for breeding sows in the United States.
Our Week That Was at Climate Central. It’s all here for you, the best of the best in a week that featured floods, but not snow, the climate on steroids and a few Hollywood stars.
If you were planning on tuning in to the Westminster Dog Show tomorrow evening, but were worried that you might have to watch a pesky ad from Pedigree dog foods featuring shelter dogs who would like to be adopted, fear no more. The ads have been axed.
Using a fragment of a human finger bone found in that cave, scientists have sequenced the genome of an extinct group of humans known as the Denisovans – so called after the name of the cave at Denisova.
The rapidly growing scientific field of “play studies” is turning up so many surprising examples of what at least appear to be play activities in the most surprising places, that scientists are asking whether there may be something about the very fabric of matter itself that continually spawns and nurtures fun and play.
A pair of very thin, homeless puppies walked into a Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital looking for medical attention. Although the hospital only caters to humans, they made sure the doggies got the treatment they needed.
“They’re living fossils,” says Ray Bosmans, president of the Mid-Atlantic Turtle & Tortoise Society (MATTS), a conservation and education group that helps place abandoned turtles and tortoises into new homes.