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Where do you draw the line on animal experimentation? Vivisection: The Moral Dilemma We Face Would you mind someone else’s pet going under the knife for…
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Exploring America the Wild
America the Wild with Casey Anderson premieres on NatGeo Wild at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Sunday March 11th, then moves to Mondays at 9 p.m. The naturalist treks across North America, from…
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Dolphins & People. A four-part feature Part Four: The Dolphin Blog Family of Killer Whale Victim Breaks Their Silence Dawn Brancheau’s family trusts SeaWorld to do…
What’s Your Animal Love Style?
Valentine’s Day is all about love. But do you know your Animal Love Style? Take this quiz to find out which animal you’re most like when it comes to love.
Environmental Civil War over Art
A massive and controversial new art project … plastic trash in the Mediterranean … four states launch new recycling efforts … and how old Christmas trees and other plants could be a good new kind of green power. All the latest from This Week in Green.
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Dolphins & People. A four-part feature Part Three: A New Beginning A New Beginning for Dolphins The end of captivity and a better relationship. Freeing Lolita…
How We Could Free Lolita!
Can a captive dolphin be returned to the wild? In most cases, yes. Howard Garrett, director and co-founder of the Orca Network, explains how. In 1995…
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Dolphins & People Part Two of three: The Big Business of Dolphins (See also Part One: The Smartest of Us All?) The Business of Dolphins How…
Part 4: Volunteering: How It Really Works
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) headquarters, just outside of Jackson, MS, looks like a concrete bomb shelter. If anything catastrophic ever…
Exchanging Beauty for Profit
“A heart has been pierced, four miles of seabed violated, and the aorta is gushing unabated.” So writes Gretel Ehrlich on the blog God’s Politics. Much…
The Man Who Saw It First
Space to Earth: “We Have a Problem” By Cathy Boyle Back in April, when most of us were fixated on the volcanic eruption in Iceland, John…
The Biggest Eco-Disaster?
The Gulf: Biggest Ecological Disaster? President Obama called it “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” Yes, it’s very bad. But is it the worst?…
The Nigerian Gulf
Out of sight, out of mind Latest reports are that the oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico is the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez spill…
‘A Gulf Lies Between Us!’
By Michael Mountain When I was 13 years old, I went to a British boarding school for boys — sort of like prep school in the…
‘A Gulf Lies Between Us!’
When I was 13 years old, I went to a British boarding school for boys — sort of like prep school in the U.S., but more…
A Letter to My Friends
Dear Friends, It’s almost two years since I stepped down as President of Best Friends Animal Society. During the 1990s, Best Friends became the flagship of…
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The Gulf Between Us The Gulf Between Us Will this be a turning point? The Man Who Saw It First While the world was watching the volcano…
The Gulf Between Us
It’s become an emblem of the greater gulf between ourselves and the natural world — the oceans, the land, the creatures, the planet. Some stories and facts that didn’t make it into the major media.
Possums Are Center’s 5,500th Rescue
The number of animals treated at the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro has surpassed 55,000. That number was reached in May by a litter of…
World’s Most Mysterious Migration
Sea turtles’ half-decade, 9,000-mile journey to lay their eggs. Their journey began five years ago as newly hatched babies on the beaches of North Carolina. Thousands of…
Ayatollah Says No to Pet Dogs
Iran’s Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi has issued a “fatwa” — or religious ruling — saying that keeping dogs as pets is not to be tolerated.…