17 Top Rocky Mountain National Park animals to see
Are you planning a family trip to the breathtaking Rocky Mountain National Park? Get ready for an adventure that your kids will cherish forever. Beyond the stunning landscapes and towering peaks, the park is home to a diverse array of wildlife that will leave your little ones wide-eyed with wonder. In this guide, we’ll explore […]
Rewriting history: Groundbreaking new research reveals that early human diets were primarily plant-based
The commonly used term “hunter-gatherers” for describing early humans should be revised to “gatherer-hunters” in the context of the Andes in South America, suggests groundbreaking new research led by an archaeologist from the University of Wyoming.
15 Best Golden Gate Bridge viewpoints (2024)
From the moment it graced the San Francisco skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge has stood as an emblem of engineering marvel and timeless beauty. Its striking “International Orange” towers have inspired poets, photographers, and dreamers from around the world. Yet, to truly appreciate this iconic structure, one must venture beyond the postcards and journey to […]
Bison vs. Buffalo: What’s the difference?
People often use the terms ‘bison’ and ‘buffalo’ interchangeably when referring to large, wooly animals in the Bovidae family. If you drive by one of the two in a national park you may even be inclined to say, ‘Buffalo, bison—they’re basically the same, right?’ Not so fast; there are a few distinctions you should know […]
‘America is a factory farming nation’: key takeaways from U.S. agriculture census
Record numbers of U.S. farms are going out of business with small farms and Black farmers the hardest hit—again, according to the 2022 agriculture census, a comprehensive snapshot of the state of America’s farms and farmers published every five years by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). Yet industrial factory farms rearing thousands of livestock in […]
Stingray falls pregnant despite having no mate
A stingray called Charlotte is pregnant despite not sharing her tank with a male for at least eight years. Charlotte is a rust-colored round stingray that has spent most of her life in an aquarium in North Carolina. Staff originally thought that Charlotte’s pregnancy was a tumor after noticing a growing lump on her back.
Remembering Steven Wise
No words will be sufficient to describe the immense sadness and sense of loss we feel with his passing. Steve inspired us every day with his relentlessly cheerful determination in the face of any and all obstacles, his fearlessness, his utter clarity on the injustices nonhuman animals endure, and his vision for a world where […]
Nearly half of the world’s migratory species are in decline, U.N. report says
Many songbirds, sea turtles, whales, sharks, and other migratory animals move to different environments with changing seasons and are imperiled by habitat loss, illegal hunting and fishing, pollution and climate change. About 44% of migratory species worldwide are declining in population, the report found. More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 species monitored by […]
Help plug dangerous pipeline leaks
Studies show that U.S. gas pipelines leak as much as 2.7 million tons of methane into our atmosphere each year. That’s the same impact as roughly 50 million passenger cars. It’s unacceptable. But it’s also a problem we can fix.
The Revolution That Died on Its Way to Dinner
It is a gleaming vision of a world just beyond the present: a world in which meat is abundant and affordable with almost no cost to the environment. Animal slaughter is forgotten. Global warming is restrained. At the heart of the vision is a high-tech factory housing steel tanks as tall as apartment buildings and […]
‘It’s a bucket-list fish’: bluefin tuna are back in British seas—and so are the fishing boats
Built like a torpedo, weighing more than a male polar bear when fully grown and fetching prices in Japan of more than £2m for a single fish, the bluefin tuna was once an abundant apex predator in British waters. In the 1960s, these warm-blooded aquatic hunters disappeared—pushed to the brink of extinction in the eastern […]
‘You lied to us’: did the real-life saga behind Free Willy change the story for orcas in captivity?
Anyone who grew up in the 1990s may well remember this movie scene: a 3.6-tonne orca leaping to freedom over a harbor wall and swimming off into the sunset with his family. It was the closing scene of “Free Willy,” a film that captured the hearts of a generation, telling the story of an orphaned […]
