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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He ate no animals – instead he bought them to set them free. He deplored vivisection. And while other scientists were experimenting on live animals, cutting them up to see how they “worked”, he was drawing their anatomy in greater precision than anyone had ever done before.
How some police and firefighters in El Cajon, CA, spent three hours on Thanksgiving Day.
Bioterrorism expert Dr. Thomas Inglesby is alarmed by a team of scientists meddling with the H5N1 bird flu virus and wanting to publish their results.
Mark Peters takes up the question of what is a person. He says the word first appears in English in the 13th Century, when it was often used to describe a role – like in the theater.
Gail Collins simply can’t turn down any opportunity to remind us of the time Mitt Romney strapped the family dog to the roof of the station wagon for the 12-hour family trek from Boston to Canada.
Two young eagles put up a healthy fight as Dawn Keller, founder of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, takes them from their crates and releases them into Starved Rock Nature Reserve in Illinois.
Barton says he’s hoping to organize a full concert for the elephants at the Kanchanaburi reserve so that the sanctuary can receive a new electric fence.
This is what it should look like next August when Curiosity lands on Mars. It’s the largest E.T. vehicle ever, and will be looking for signs of life, past or present, including carbon molecules, methane gas, even genetic material from primitive life forms.
If she really cares about the animals, she’ll tell her co-trustees at the L.A. Zoo to release Billy the elephant to a sanctuary.
Note to NYC’s Dept. of Health: You’re more likely to catch something from other guests at the Algonquin Hotel than from Matilda the cat. The city agency has “reminded” the hotel that “pets in food-service facilities” are not allowed — and the Algonquin serves food in its lobby.
The president of the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases, Dr. Thomas Gottleib, is worried about the flow-on effects on the food chain.
“… Three … Two … One … Main engine start … Zero!” And as the engines roar and Curiosity heads out to look for signs of life on Mars, a raven bids her a quick “Safe travels!”
The Association of Zoos & Aquariums is in shock. A big zoo is doing the unthinkable, challenging the authority of the AZA, and setting out to do what’s right for the animals.
Seems like all the expensive PR in the world can’t raise footballer Michael Vick out of the pits of public opinion. According to a new poll from Forbes magazine:
Movie star Matt Damon is doing major damage control after being spotted at a bullfight in Mexico City last Monday. By Tuesday, he was on the phone to PETA VP Lisa Lange to personally let her know he does not approve of bullfights.
ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet’s oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today
Fourteen-year-old Ben Werdegar is in Taji, Japan, (scene of the Oscar-winning movie The Cove) to witness the massacre of the dolphins there.
James Serpell, of the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that humans have created the bulldog because it reminds us of ourselves with its crinkly face, huge eyes and wide grin.