Kittens Versus Demolition Experts
And the kittens win … of course! Neighbors of an old hotel on Miami Beach leaped into action when demolition vehicles pulled up outside, ready to…
Sunday Hike
The creek at Angel Canyon By Michael Mountain This is my first afternoon hike down to the creek here at Angel Canyon since the end of…
The Ghost of Oreo
A dead dog continues to haunt New York City and the no-kill movement. By Michael Mountain Oreo was a pit bull dog, abused by a young…
Blind Kitty Lost in S.F. Turns Up in NYC
Why do cats do mysterious things? Jack Daniels at the New York City shelter. (Photo by NYC AC&C) The rule of thumb is very simple. Any…
Why Russia Is Burning
Yes, it’s the hottest summer on record, but there’s more to it. Moscow has been choking through an unrelenting pea-soup smog. Smoldering under record heat, the…
Animals, Conspiracies & ‘The Avengers’
Testing out weapons of war at Porton Down By Michael Mountain In a post in the News & Views section, we write about the use of…
Testing Weapons on Animals
Is it right to rope them in on our human wars? (See also Michael’s column Animals, Conspiracies & ‘The Avengers’) Is it justifiable to try out…
Teacher Punished for Reporting Animal Cruelty
Perpetrators get away with it. What’s wrong with this picture? School teacher Lorraine Leadingham is finally getting her job back. Last April, Ms. Leadningham was fired…
A Matter of Animal Taste
Cats don’t have a sweet tooth … and other tasty facts. Of your five senses, taste and smell are the oldest. They evolved first because it’s…
An American Teacher Journeys to India
My life with the sacred cows By Margaret Campbell Photo by Cris Pedregal They’re lovely creatures. Docile. No wonder they’re sacred here, in India, where I…
Cow Pumps Her Own Water
Aet at a village water pump, a “water-cooler discussion.” By Rishi Dev I was just driving through a village. It was hot as ever and I…
We Drove to India!
When we heard about a young Indian couple, living in the U.K., who had just set off by car to drive from London to New Delhi…
Don’t Buy a Ticket!
This post is in Part Two of our series on Dolphins and Us – their intelligence, culture and society, and why it’s time to bring an end to keeping them in captivity.
Massive and Massing!
Blue whales gather off the California coast They’re the largest animals ever to have lived on Planet Earth. And right now these leviathans are frolicking off…
Farewell to the Little Brown Bat
Consequences will be felt far and wide. The evening sky used to be filled with them … millions of little brown bats, the most common species…
Bridge Over Troubled Highways
Highways are not designed to be crossed. But if you’re an animal on a perilous migration, and a highway is what stands between you and survival, well, you’ll try anything. But help is on the way!
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…
At Home with ‘Aliens’
Up close with bugs who live with us You don’t have to go to a faraway planet to see weird life forms like this. They’re all…
Giant Greenland Glacier Collapses
Creates iceberg four times size of Manhattan A giant sheet of ice has broken off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. Measuring 100 square miles (about four times the…
Moscow New Poster Girl for Climate Change
People groping their way through crippling smog and heat in Moscow’s Red Square. Peat fires that no one can put out. How did it happen? Not by chance. The seeds were sown in the 1950s, and more is on the way.