Greenhouse Gases Just Gone Through the Roof
Last week, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere went through the roof. Another roof. The previous roof was 350 parts per million (ppm) –…
Tennessee Gov. Vetoes Ag-Gag Bill
It’s a small victory, but a big precedent, for the animals at factory farms: Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has vetoed the ag-gag bill that would effectively…
Chihuahua Plays Pool
You get one shot; the Chihuahua gets 16.
"My Fellow New Yorkers and Animal Lovers …"
It was like one of those early Republican primary debates where all the candidates try to outdo each other in terms of how many assault weapons…
Senator’s Remarkable Climate Sermon
An oration about climate change … loaded with Bible quotes … invoking the name of the Almighty in almost every other sentence. Must have been delivered…
Household Product Testing – Useless?
Three months ago, we took note of a 10-year study finding that billions of dollars of research and billions of lives of mice have gone down…
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…
Giant Governor Squishes Tiny Spider
One small spider: less than an ounce. One New Jersey governor: around 330 pounds. The governor heaves himself over to his desk in front of a…
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…
The Nonhuman Rights Project
The great irony of the animal rights movement is that there is, to this day, still only one species that has any rights at all: humans.…
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…
Orcas Race Boat
This may be the first ever video of orcas racing a boat for so long – an hour in this case. [readon] The boat was carrying…
U.K. Astronomer Royal: Is This Our Final Century?
Britain’s Astronomer Royal is setting up an organization to study the risks posed to ourselves and our planet by modern technology.
“Nature has value in its own right,” he says. “So it’s imperative to do what we can to preserve the natural world, and this has to go beyond any human self-interest.”
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.”