At least 1,000 birds died from colliding with one Chicago building in one day
At least 1,000 birds died from colliding into a single building in Chicago on Thursday, October 5, as they migrated south to their wintering grounds. Volunteers are still recovering bird carcasses within 1.5 miles of McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, which is largely covered with glass.
Stop monkey cull at once, welfare groups urge Sint Maarten government
Seventy-five animal welfare organizations and experts have called on the government of Sint Maarten in the Caribbean to immediately stop its attempt to cull the territory’s entire population of vervet monkeys. The international protest comes after the Guardian revealed in January that the Dutch territory is funding a non-profit organization to eradicate the “nuisance” species […]
Positively glowing: fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought
Fluorescence in mammals is much more common than previously thought, new research suggests. A luminous property, fluorescence has been described in recent years in Australian marsupials including platypuses, wombats, Tasmanian devils and echidnas. But scientists now believe the quality is widespread across mammals after researchers studied 125 species and found all of them showed some […]
Mass death of Amazonian dolphins prompts fears for vulnerable species
The sudden die-off of more than a hundred Amazonian river dolphins in recent days has prompted fears that rising global heat could be passing the tolerance threshold of species in vulnerable areas. The floating corpses of the endangered mammals, along with thousands of dead fish, have appeared at Lake Tefé where the temperature is now […]
Is an all-meat diet what nature intended?
The craze for eating the way our ancestors did is nothing new; it has been more than two decades since the exercise physiologist Loren Cordain published “The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat” (2001), helping launch a billion-dollar industry. But the Liver King, along with […]
The gruesome story of how Neuralink’s monkeys actually died
Fresh allegations of potential securities fraud have been leveled at Elon Musk over statements he recently made regarding the deaths of primates used for research at Neuralink, his biotech startup. Letters sent to top officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by a medical ethics group call on the agency to investigate Musk’s […]
Emu crossing ahead: the fight to save the coastal emus of northern NSW
Stand quietly in the scrub of the Clarence Valley, on the north coast of New South Wales, and you may see them: a tall male emu, with his bright blue neck and careful feet, escorting three chicks. The chicks, their small bodies striped like humbugs, are a sign of hope.
Britain to ban American XL bully dogs by the end of the year
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said American XL bully dogs would be banned by the end of the year after a man was killed in another suspected attack. The announcement came less than a week after one of the stocky, muscular dogs was involved in an attack on an 11-year-old girl who was walking to […]
What would happen if the world cut meat and milk consumption in half?
Cows are often described as climate change criminals because of how much planet-warming methane they burp. But there’s another problem with livestock farming that’s even worse for the climate and easier to overlook: to feed the world’s growing appetite for meat, corporations and ranchers are chopping down more forests and trampling more carbon-sequestering grasslands to […]
The curious extinction of the Carolina Parakeet: an avian cold case
The last captive Carolina parakeet in the United States, a male bird named Incas, died in the aviary at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918—expiring within a year of the demise of his female companion, Lady Jane. Though the zoo tried to breed the pair for more than three decades, Incas and Lady Jane seemingly had […]
Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky
Prior to European contact, Native American diets were largely plant-based—a legacy that chefs Lois Ellen Frank, PhD, and Walter Whitewater aim to highlight. Co-founders of the Santa Fe–based catering company Red Mesa Cuisine, the duo draw on the culinary traditions of their ancestors to create visually stunning plant-forward meals, using indigenous ingredients from Native suppliers.
US scientists who used scissors to kill lab rats must be fired, activists say
An animal rights group is demanding the firing of researchers at a Louisiana university who killed laboratory rats with scissors and a blunt blade—and used out-of-date anesthetics for pain relief. The episodes are detailed in separate, self-reported notices of violation to the federal Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, which were sent by Tulane University in […]
