How Humans Can Survive. (Should We?)
Newsweek leads off this week with an article about the future of humankind. It opens with how the bees are dying off and the enormous toll…
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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
Rottweiler, Deer Play Together
Tucker races his new pal along the fence at a deer park in Winona, MN.(Thanks to Lisa.)
Hungary? Try the Cat Café
The Cat Café in Budapest Nice mewsic, purrfect coffee, and all that good stuff. It started in Tokyo with the Café Neko. Then the owners moved…
First ‘Ag-Gag’ Prosecution Collapses
Amy Meyer had heard about the horrible conditions at factory farms and slaughterhouses. So she drove to the Dale Smith Meatpacking Company in Draper City, Utah,…
Today Show Investigates Puppy Mills
The Today Show‘s investigative piece on commercial dog breeders doesn’t offer anything new about the puppy mills themselves. But it does highlight the relationship that these…
What Happened to My Home?
Take note, fellow humans: What we do to the koalas’ homes we’re ultimately doing to our own home. (This little person’s home was demolished in Australia’s…
H7N9 Now Spreading Human-to-Human
An ominous development in the new bird flu is the first apparent, well-documented case of the virus being transmitted from human to human. Laurie Garrett, who…
Elephants on Candid Camera
Elephants in Cambodia pass a camera trap make their way through the forest to a small lake, where some fun and games ensues. The videos come…
H7N9 Has Escaped from China
At a briefing in Beijing yesterday, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, an assistant director general at the World Health Organization, called H7N9 “definitely one of the most lethal influenza viruses we’ve seen.”
He added that “the potential development of human-to-human spread cannot be ruled out.”
Soy – the Good, the Bad and the Poisonous
The Cornucopia Institute has a scorecard on some of the best-known soy products. And you may be surprised to learn that the ubiquitous Silk doesn’t even…
Elephants on HBO with Lily Tomlin
If you’re already outraged by what Lily Tomlin calls “the bizarre practice of caging wild animals for public display,” the HBO documentary An Apology to Elephants…
Ferrets in a Peanut Pool, etc. …
Ferrets in a peanut pool … Kitty drinks from a vacuum cleaner(!) … Another cat tries out the rotating snake illusion … and an African Gray…
Why Zoos Won’t Save Lions
Fifty years ago, 450,000 lions ruled Africa as the proverbial king of beasts. Today there are fewer than 20,000 left. What will save them from extinction?…
‘He Kept Me Alive in Afghanistan.’
Pets aren’t allowed on U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. At least not officially. Staff Sgt. Jesse Knott first saw Koshka appear from behind one of the…
U.S. Army Stops Medical Training on Goats
At Fort Bragg, N.C., soldiers kill about 300 goats a month in practice situations to learn how to deal with wounds caused by bombs and bullets.…
U.K. to Ban Wild Animals in Traveling Circuses
Under a bill that’s expected to become law, traveling circuses in the U.K. will be banned from using exotic animals. They will have until December 2015…
As Ocean Rises, Kiribati Islands Plan to Evacuate
The remains of a gas station submerged as the waters rise over Kiribati. The President of Kiribati calls it “migration with dignity.” The ocean is rising.…
Happy Birthday, Nessie
It sounded, at some points, more like a religious gathering. “I believe in a large, unidentified creature in the loch, possibly amphibious – that is, a…