By last weekend, we hadn’t heard much, if anything about the new pope’s relationship to anything except humans. But today, at his official installation, Pope Francis spoke out for protection of the environment, urging his people to shun “the omens of destruction and death.” Perhaps that phrase was a little unclear, but he added this during his homily at the inaugural Mass:
Alexander Songorwa, director of wildlife for the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism, explains that the best thing we can do to protect the remaining…
Dear Michael Vick, Sorry to hear you can’t understand why people are angry that you’re doing the rounds of the book stores with your new book,…
We have a new pope, round-the-clock news coverage, reporters and commentators all over the world talking about St. Francis of Assisi, and not a word about whether this might relate to how we live our lives in relation to our fellow animals.
Climate Central has an interactive map showing that, regardless of snowstorms, winters have been warming especially fast all across the United States.
The new pope, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has taken the name Francis, after the patron saint of animals.
Just as Starbucks lures you into its coffee shops with the promise of a tasty treat and a nice buzz of energy in pleasant surroundings, many…
Check out the moment when a group of chimpanzees who have lived their lives at the New Iberia laboratory in Louisiana step out into the sun…
A prank photo from Fox News in Australia The story was that three dolphins trained for action by the Ukrainian Navy had gone missing. Worse, they…
As you look at one area of this picture, other areas may appear to be rotating. (And there are lots of other examples of what’s known…
After years of obstruction from the vivisection industry and cosmetic companies, the European Union has finally enacted a complete ban on the sale of cosmetics developed…
Fresh from analyzing a sample of rock, the Mars rover Curiosity has answered a key question: Could the Red Planet have once supported life? “From what…
Britain’s Prince William, an avid hunter, has sent a video message to the CITES conference (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), saying how upset he…
The big international conference that decides the fate of endangered animals is serving up its usual mix of a small reprieves while still condemning vast numbers…
Here are a couple of totally delightful videos of cows in Europe being let out of their winter barns and onto their spring pastures. People who…
Why did Couscous, a male lion at the zoo/sanctuary Cat Haven in California, attack and kill young intern Dianna Hanson yesterday? Why did he not just…
KCET interviews great ape researcher Craig Stanford about the demise of our closest cousins in the wild. Stanford explains why all the great apes will be…
In the wake of the asteroid fly-by two weeks ago, and the meteorite that slammed into Russia the same day, we now hear that Mars might…
“Behind the numbers is a real tragedy of a very sentient creature, who really knows that there’s a genocide going on.” Biologist Richard Ruggiero of the…
By Rollin Wild