Why Boulder, Colorado?
With huge floods in Colorado, fires in California, twin hurricanes on the two coasts of Mexico, and all the other weather catastrophes of the summer season,…
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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
This Time It’s for Real?
Toka checks out her travel crate After more than two years of false starts, this time, everyone seems agreed that the three elephants at the Toronto…
Prince William’s Guard Dogs
It’s hard to know what to make of Britain’s Prince William and his relationship to animals. One day he’s out hunting them. (The whole family loves…
Now You See It, Now You … Huh?
It’s an ocean bush. No, wait, it’s some kind of white projectile. Or … did it just turn into a pancake? This is the video that…
Where Homeless Dogs Are off the Charts
If you think homeless pets have it bad in some cities in the United States, you “ain’t seen nothin’.” In Bucharest, a relatively small city of…
Top Wildlife Photos
A Bottlenose dolphin surfs the tunnel of a giant wave. “In the Living Room” by George Karbus is the winner of this year’s British Wildlife Photography…
Kittens on Slides
Lots of kittens; lots of sliding. [readon] And how to foster kittens. One mama who really gets it.
Chickens Flying High – Literally!
They’ve spent their whole lives in tiny cages, unable even to spread their wings. But now thousands of them are flying high – to sanctuaries all…
Are You a Martian?
Mars today, and how it may have looked in its early days with what astronomers believe was a large northern ocean. Ladies, you may not,…
The Great Cockroach Escape
They call it “traditional medicine.” The million-and-a-half cockroaches in a backyard greenhouse-like facility were going to be ground up and the cockroach “extract” sold as a…
Fish and Sparrows Prefer Bach
Can you tell your Bach from your Stravinsky? The French audience that first heard Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in Paris in 1913 hated it and almost…
Elephant on Trampoline
Enough with the dogs and goats and bears and kittens. Here comes the heavyweight: (P.S. Yes, yes, it’s just C.G.)
Snuggling Up with the Keystone XL Pipeline
The arguments against digging up the tar sands of the northern U.S. states and Canada and sending the oil through the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline to…
My Three-Eyed Cat?
What is this? Take a guess and then read on:
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Jersey, a chimpanzee at Save the Chimps, is busy checking herself out in a mirror – not very different from what you or I do when…
Naming Storms After Climate Change Deniers
Here’s a splendid notion from an organization called Climate Name Change. They’re proposing that hurricanes and storms should no longer be named after folks like Sandy,…
The 4,000-Year-Old Bog Man
Somewhat off topic, but anyway. These are the mummified remains of a man who was uncovered from a peat bog in Ireland in 2011. It now…
Carriage Horse Owner Admits Lying to Public
The horse on the left is not the real Jerry As the old game show used to say: Will the real carriage horse Jerry please stand…