U.S. Military Warned about Climate Change
Climate change-denying senators scramble to respond Yet another major report this week on climate change. This latest, published on Tuesday by the CNA Corporation Military Advisory…
Pit Bulls Do It Best
Stealing the show at Western Oregon University softball game.
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…
Catching the Bass
Intriguing video of a kitty trying to catch air waves coming out of a sub-woofer. (Maybe she’s assuming that a sub-woofer is some kind of sub-canine?)
Baby Pigs Succumb to New Virus. Humans Next?
How alarmed should you be about the corona virus that’s killed seven million baby pigs in the last year? So far it hasn’t mutated into anything…
Climate Crisis? Who Cares When Coal Miners Need Jobs!
You’d think that the very ominous tone of the National Climate Assessment, with its devastating, point-by-point analysis of how climate change is already wreaking havoc in…
Of Mice and Men – and Women
If you were a mouse in a laboratory, who would you rather have experimenting on you: a man or a woman? Turns out that if it’s…
Chatting with Charles Siebert
Charles Siebert’s New York Times story about the Nonhuman Rights Project has stirred lots of interest around the country in last few days. Among other scoops,…
Unlocking the Cage
For the last two years, Academy Award-winning movie maker D.A. Pennebaker and Oscar nominee Chris Hegedus have been following the work of Steven M. Wise and…
Q & A with Steven M. Wise
Steven M. Wise, President of the Nonhuman Rights Project President, answers some of the questions we’ve been receiving in the wake of the cover story in the New York Times magazine.
First: “Why can’t a humane society or local authorities just go in and rescue those poor chimpanzees?”
Our First Plaintiff
Our plaintiff did not walk into our office; he couldn’t. When we last saw him, he was being held captive in solitary confinement in a small, dank, cement cage in a dark shed in temperatures 40 degrees below his native land.
New York Times Mag on Chimp Rights
Renowned author and journalist Charles Siebert writes about the Nonhuman Rights Project for this week’s cover story in the New York Times Magazine. Siebert accompanies attorney…
New Zealand’s Easter Bunny from Hell
The company is called Hell Pizza. And the billboard for its latest advertising campaign is made of rabbit pelts – an idea that’s certainly straight from…
The Great Irony in Showtime’s Climate Show
There’s a terrible irony right there in the opening sequence of the first episode of the new Showtime series Years of Living Dangerously. Nelly Montez describes…
Noah: Life Without Humans
While traveling this week, I had a chance to see the movie Noah. (If you haven’t yet seen it, watch out for a minor spoiler alert…
Hope Springs Eternal
In this week’s climate-change quiz, we ask: Who wrote the following when discussing how to avoid the growing global catastrophe? The glass is either half empty…
Endgame – What We Can Do
Derrick Jensen is one of the few people you’ll come across who are passionate about both the “environment” and all the living creatures. (Climate change activists…
Surprise: Elephants Are Really Intelligent (Really!)
Why are we humans always surprised to learn that other animals (aka “animals”) are “also” intelligent? Perhaps it’s because we’re not so bright ourselves when it…
Are You an Extremist?
The nation’s largest coalition of vivisectionists has a new publication advising people who experiment on animals how best to combat the people it calls “animal rights…