Please support the CARGO Act
Please support the new bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV-01) and Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX-22): the Cease Animal Research Grants Overseas (CARGO) Act (HR 4757), which would ban the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from funding experiments on animals in foreign laboratories. Specifically, the CARGO Act would prohibit NIH from offering any funds […]
Can we talk to whales?
David Gruber began his almost impossibly varied career studying bluestriped grunt fish off the coast of Belize. He was an undergraduate, and his job was to track the fish at night. He navigated by the stars and slept in a tent on the beach. “It was a dream,” he recalled recently. “I didn’t know what […]
Emperor penguins may become ‘quasi-extinct’ by end of century in Antarctica
Record-breaking amounts of ice are melting from high temperatures caused by global warming, and we lost a chunk the size of Argentina this year alone. Although some are forecasting what a future without polar ice would look like, that is already the reality for many creatures whose habitats rest on the planet’s poles. In five […]
Meet the Amazon river dolphin
Hold onto your swim caps, we’re about to dive into the world of the Amazon river dolphin, aka the pink river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis)—the most fabulous and flamboyant member of the dolphin family. Found only in the murky waters of South America’s Amazon River basin, these barbie-pink creatures are a fantastic sight, but as with […]
There’s nothing natural about modern meat…
The culture war pitting plant-based meat against its animal-based counterpart rages on, it seems. Plant-based alternatives are called “ultra-processed,” “fake,” and “synthetic”—juxtaposed against factory farmed animal meat that’s touted as “all natural” and “single ingredient.” How did we get here? One recent source of this conflict—and the subsequent backlash to plant-based meat—can be traced back […]
No more cordon blur: France tries again to ban meaty language on vegetarian products
France’s long-running battle over vegan food names has escalated as the government published a decree banning meaty terms such as “steak”, “grill” or “spare ribs” being used to describe plant-based products. Marc Fesneau, the French agriculture minister, said the new government decree on products such as “vegan ham” or “plant-based steak” was about helping shoppers […]
Tokitae, the star of Miami Seaquarium, dies after half a century in captivity
The whale who began her life in the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest only to end up in a small enclosure at the Miami Seaquarium has died. At least a dozen whales died during [her] capture, and more than 50 were kept for captive display. Toki—who was also known by her performing name Lolita, […]
Researchers have identified a new pack of endangered gray wolves in California
A new pack of gray wolves has shown up in California’s Sierra Nevada, several hundred miles away from any other known population of the endangered species, wildlife officials announced Friday. It’s a discovery to make researchers howl with delight, given that the native species was hunted to extinction in California in the 1920s. Only in […]
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‘Unbelievable’: astronomer claims ‘direct evidence’ of gravity breaking down
A scientist has observed a “gravitational anomaly” in certain star systems that could potentially upend a fundamental assumption about the universe, according to a new study. The anomaly arises when loosely orbiting stars, known as wide binaries, seem to move in ways that defy established models of gravity, which are based on the ideas of […]
More than half of Earth’s species live in the soil, study finds
More than half of all species live in the soil, according to a study that has found it is the single most species-rich habitat on Earth. Soil was known to hold a wealth of life, but this new figure doubles what scientists estimated in 2006, when they suggested 25% of life was soil-based. Before this […]
Ailing and baby hummingbirds nursed to health at woman’s apartment-turned-clinic in Mexico City
Gently holding a baby hummingbird between her hands, Catia Lattouf says, “Hello, cute little guy. Are you very hungry?” It’s the newest patient at her apartment in a toney section of Mexico City where she has nursed hundreds of the tiny birds back to health over the past decade. Under Lattouf’s caress, the bird relaxes […]
