Best in Shoes – 2016
The judge and the Lagotta Romagnolo’s handler both wore blue, knee-length skirts that really showed off the muscle tone of their legs.
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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
Chickens with Flu and Pigs Who Dive
A few items from around the world of factory farming this week: Bird Flu in the U.S.: As of Tuesday, May 5th, just under 26 million…
The Right Music for Cats
In a lighter vein than usual on this blog (!): What kind of music do cats prefer: Jazz? Classical? Bluegrass? New Age? The answer: None of…
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…
Greyhound Shock Angers Australians
“Make no mistake,” writes greyhound racer Kevin Pitstock. “Greyhound racing in Australia is teetering on the brink of destruction.” In the wake of an investigative report…
Secrets of the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
If you haven’t read the shocking, eye-opening report by the New York Times on the secret, government-operated US Meat Animal Research Center and its “one overarching…
A Year in the Life of Earth’s CO2
An eerily beautiful video, created by a NASA super-computer, showing how human-generated carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere in winter and retreats in summer as…
Ridiculously Cute
Light relief – a break from our usual fare! . . . Baby rhino and baby goat do their thing. (More below)
Whose Temperature Should You Be Taking?
While passengers arriving from West Africa at Dulles International Airport last week were having their temperatures taken, this woman was sitting on the other side of…
A Day of Blessings and Sacrifices
If you were a goat this weekend, would you want to be Christian, Jewish or Muslim? Answer: Definitely Christian – at least for today. And definitely…
Southwest Lurches from Drought to Flood
What’s behind the massive floods in Phoenix and Las Vegas that caused unprecedented death and destruction this week, along with the deepening megadrought in California, the…
How the Weather Is Like Fido
The new Cosmos series continues to take down those who prefer to believe that the Earth is flat, that we were all created in six days,…
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…
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…
"The Evidence Is Overwhelming"
Scientists tend to err on the side of being ultra-conservative. It’s built into the system. Their work is always being reviewed and picked apart by other…