‘Because Insects Are Key to Our Own Survival,’ 73 Scientists Unveil Global Roadmap to Battle Bugpocalypse
The immediate “no-regret” measures they propose include aggressively curbing planet-heating emissions and the use of synthetic pesticides.
Read More The Issues with Eating Dairy, Eggs and Honey [Interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger]
In this interview with researcher and think-tank developer Daniel Schmachtenberger, we discuss some of the fundamental ethical questions and issues surrounding animal rights and veganism.
Read More Science: Bees Are the Most Important Species on Earth
Bees are the most important species, according to research that reveals how wild bee health impacts the environment more than colony collapse disorder.
Read More Fishes, Sentience, And The Law
Despite recent increases in the interest towards bird and mammal protection, less attention is paid to the suffering experienced by fishes in the fishing industry. But without a morally relevant difference between aquatic and land animals, the same moral obligations should apply to fishes and other aquatic animals, too.
Read More In the Presence of Elephants and Whales: Interview with Katy Payne
Katy Payne is a renowned acoustic biologist who has discovered that humpback whales compose ever-changing songs and that elephants communicate across long distances by infrasound.
Read More Say ‘Cheese’ – But There’s Nothing to Smile About
How many nonvegans know the difference between 1) the kind of cheese we were all raised to think of as ‘normal’, 2) vegetarian cheese and 3) vegan cheese?
Read More Overfishing Ban Could Save the Oceans From Climate Change
A ban on overfishing could protect the oceans and help fight climate change, a new report says. Overfishing is impacting the oceans’ health and resilience.
Read More Plastic? What’s Really Killing Our Oceans?
The public has expressed growing concern for the state of our oceans, as plastic is quickly outnumbering the amount of fish in the sea. But what is the main driver of ocean plastic? It turns out that close to 50% of the plastic debris in our oceans is abandoned fishing gear.
Read More Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse but Business as Usual
Regardless of a rapidly emerging health and environmental apocalypse, with the pesticide industry being one of the key drivers, unrestrained capitalism reigns, profits trump public interest and its business as usual.
Read More California to Become Third State to Ban Wild Animal Circuses
Animal-rights groups rejoice as the new legislation, which will effectively ban wild animal circuses statewide, heads to the governor’s desk.
Read More Thoughts About Diluting the Animal Rights Message
The victims of our food habits have no one but us to tell the truth about the grave injustice of the ordeal to which we routinely subject them. We owe that truth to them as they queue in the milking parlours and hatcheries and slaughterhouses; and we owe that truth to every single member of our own species.
Read More Neonicotinoid Pesticides Have Caused A Huge Surge in the Toxicity of Agriculture
The most widely used class of insecticides is dangerous for much more than its intended target, new research finds.
Read More Room to Roam: How Animals Benefit From Wildlife Corridors
Development, resource extraction and roadbuilding have fragmented landscapes and reduced wild spaces making it harder for animals to find food, search for a mate and adapt to a changing climate. Ecologists and conservationists have been working for decades to create wildlife corridors — areas of natural habitat that can reconnect fragmented habitats.
Read More So What’s Wrong with Wool?
Despite the fact that farming sheep is at least as harmful to the environment as farming cows, many sheep raised for wool are treated very cruelly. This video reveals the very disturbing treatment of sheep on an Australian wool farm, which is unfortunately considered “treatment as usual” across Australia and much of the world.
Read More What Animals Are Thinking and Feeling, and Why It Should Matter | Carl Safina | TEDxMidAtlantic
Carl Safina takes us inside the lives and minds of animals around the world, witnessing their profound capacity for perception, thought and emotion. And yet, we are wiping out the very animals we should celebrate; we are the flood coming for Noah’s Ark. Carl leaves us with a difficult question: Do we have what it takes to let life on earth survive?
Read More California Becomes First State to Ban Fur Trapping
Written by Louis Sahagun and Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — California has enacted a...
Read More Animal Agriculture Is Major Driver of Australia’s Faunal Extinction Crisis
In a submission to an Australian government inquiry into Australia’s faunal extinction crisis, Vegan Australia urged the government to move towards a vegan agricultural system to help save koalas and many other threatened species.
Read More Cruel Taiji Dolphin Drive Hunt Season Underway
Fishermen in the coastal town of Taiji, Japan have begun their controversial annual dolphin hunt. These hunts run from September to April, and involve the corralling of dolphins at sea by small boats and driving them into the confines of a cove where they are slaughtered for meat or kept alive for lucrative sale to marine parks and aquaria across the globe.
Read More The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming: Here Are Five Lessons We Must Learn
Although endangered mammals get all the headlines, a new scientific report warns that over 40 percent of the world’s insects are in danger of going extinct. If insects head toward precipitous decline and extinction, humans can’t be far behind. We need to advance our thinking about insects, their importance and what can be done to save them.
Read More What Guarding Rare Rhinos Says About Saving the Planet
The northern white rhinos have been brought to the edge of oblivion by relentless poaching and the widespread loss of suitable habitats. Rhinos in general are being killed off by the thousands each year for their horns. For the guards protecting the animals, the responsibility has a devotional quality to it that photographer Justin Mott captured in a series called “No Man’s Land,” being displayed at the Anastasia Photo gallery in New York.
Read More Acid Oceans Are Shrinking Plankton, Fuelling Faster Climate Change
Increasingly acidic oceans are putting algae at risk, threatening the foundation of the entire marine food web.
Read More Australia Will Ban Domestic Trade of Ivory and Rhino Horns in Massive Win for Biodiversity
Australia has announced it will ban the domestic trade of ivory and rhino horn, a decision that could help halt illegal global poaching and save the treasured animals for future generations.
Read More Is Science Failing the World’s Primates?
There are more than 500 known primate species, and approximately 60 percent of themare endangered, half of them critically. And yet, less than 20 percent of research was focused on conservation.
Read More Plants Around the World Are Struggling to Grow as Atmosphere Dries Up
Plants are struggling to grow around the world because atmospheric water vapor levels are declining, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
Read More Zoos Are Outdated and Cruel – It’s Time to Make Them a Thing of the Past
Zoos do not play a significant role in the conservation of wildlife, their claims to educate are exaggerated and their research is compromised. Leading conservationist Damian Aspinall reckons it’s time to phase them out.
Read More The World’s Forest Animals Are Disappearing at a Terrifying Rate: Report
Forests around the world are losing the vertebrate animals that help to keep them alive, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London.
Read More Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues
Craig Childs’ book, ‘The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild’ offers compelling tales of creatures large and small, offering us a rare intimate glimpse into the lives of our fellow Earthlings.
Read More Opinion: How New VR Experience Can Create Empathy for Farmed Animals
A new form of animal advocacy and outreach involves the use of virtual reality, providing people an immersive experience of what it’s like to be a farm animal on an industrialized farms.
Read More Over 100,000 Species ‘Threatened’ For The First Time Because Of Hunting And Fishing
More than 100,000 species are now categorised as ‘threatened’ for the first time in history. Around 9,000 species have recently been added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, bringing the total of threatened species to 105,732.
Read More What Keeping Polar Bears in Zoos and Aquariums Does to These Animals Will Shock You
Animals in captivity are known to exhibit certain stereotypical behaviors, such as pacing, associated with environmental stress, but how can you tell what’s normal and what isn’t? A group of researchers set out to answer this question by conducting a study of 11 polar bears at seven different zoos.
Read More Faunalytics Index – August 2019
Each month, our Faunalytics Index provides a round-up of data, statistics, and facts gleaned from the most recent research we’ve covered in our library. Our aim is to give you a quick overview of some of the most eye-catching and informative bits of data that could help you be more effective in your advocacy for animals.
Read More Animal Agriculture Is Major Threat to Koalas
Koalas in Australia are at risk of becoming extinct. The key threat to koala survival is land clearing, both past and continuing, and the key driver for tree-clearing is the production of animal products.
Read More Op-Ed: Are We Really so Different from Other Species?
As a biologist who documents new species and behavior in remote places, from sinkholes in Venezuela to treetops in Borneo, I see abundant signs that the future is grim. A recent United Nations report confirmed the terrible truth: One million species on Earth are threatened with extinction.
Read More Something Fishy: Toxic Plastic Pollution Is Traveling Up the Food Chain
Widespread deaths of plankton caused by microplastic would certainly disrupt the marine food web. But their consumption is already changing the health of the oceans: Microplastic has been found in middle-ocean and deep-sea fish, which, like mackerel, are prey to ocean top predators, like seals or mahi-mahi.
Read More UK Finally Bans Wild Animal Circuses After 20 Years of Protests
This week, the British Parliament passed the Wild Animals in Circus Bill, which effectively bans the use of wild animals in traveling circuses across the United Kingdom after January 2020.
Read More Spain’s Cruel Bullfights Have No Place in the 21st Century
The annual running of the bulls at Pamplona has just come to a close in Spain. Tradition and tourism are not excuses for animal cruelty. Increasingly, consumers are also beginning to shy away from travel experiences that involve animal cruelty. It’s time for Spain’s politicians – and its travel industry — to wake up to modern sensibilities on this issue, listen to Spanish citizens and help foster respect for all sentient animals by ending cruel blood fiestas and bullfights once and for all.
Read More Cigarette Butts in Soil Hamper Plant Growth, Study Suggests
Discarded cigarette butts can hamper plant growth, new research suggests. The study, led by Anglia Ruskin University, found the presence of butts in soil reduced the germination success and shoot length of clover by 27% and 28% respectively. For grass, germination success reduced by 10% and shoot length by 13%. An estimated 4.5 trillion butts are littered globally each year making them the planet’s most pervasive form of plastic pollution, the study said.
Read More ‘Unprecedented’ Decline of Plants and Animals as Global ‘Red List’ Reveals Nearly One-Third of Assessed Species Under Threat
The Red List, published Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), revealed that one third of all species the group has assessed are now under threat due to overfishing, pollution, illegal logging and trafficking, threats to water sources and habitats due to the climate crisis, and other factors, including many human activities.
Read More Animal Tracker 2019: Importance Of Animal Protection
Anyone who studies animal issues recognizes that there is a disparity between people’s attitudes on the one hand and behavior toward non-human animals on the other.
Read More Rhino Population Surges 1,000% in Tanzania Following Poaching Crackdown
There were only 15 rhinos roaming Tanzania in 2015. Today, there are 167 of the endangered animals, an increase of more than 1,000%.
Read More Double Heatwave Killed Two-Thirds of Coral in Central Indian Ocean
Back-to-back heatwaves in the central Indian Ocean killed more than two-thirds of corals in two years. But some corals were more resilient to the high sea temperatures, which could provide hope for the important habitat as the planet warms.
Read More What Would You Say to the Remaining Few North Atlantic Right Whales?
North Atlantic right whales are on the brink of extinction. Fewer than 450 are left. They never recovered from the intensive hunting of the past and their situation is dire. But it’s only too late to save them when we stop trying.
Read More Insects: The Hidden Extinction
An extensive study looks to quantify the extinction of insects around the world, and finds agriculture to be a driving factor in declining populations.
Read More Plastic, Insects, Salmon and Climate Change: The 13 Best Environmental Books of July
The Revelator has picked the best new environmentally themed books coming out this July, with titles covering everything from insects and salmon to climate change and plastic pollution. There are even a few eco-poetry collections for those of you who’d like a little art with your inspiration.
Read More Sharks Under Attack: These Animals Are Overfished and Underprotected
Sharks are in far more danger from humans than humans are from sharks, and they need our help. A new report from Greenpeace International has revealed that, in the North Atlantic Ocean, some fishing boats are catching up to four times more sharks than swordfish, despite swordfish being the boats’ official target.
Read More Yes, Animals Think and Feel. Here’s How We Know
Do animals feel empathy? Does an elephant have consciousness? Can a dog plan ahead? These are some of the questions that award-winning environmental writer Carl Safina teases out in his new book, Beyond Words: How Animals Think and Feel.
Read More Killing as a Government Service
The USDA’s Wildlife Services program slaughters millions of wild animals every year — including endangered species. It doesn’t have to.
Read More What Are Eggs For?
Apart from the fact that many birds are protected by law, why would it never occur to us to help ourselves to the eggs of a blue tit or a crow, a chaffinch or a jay, or any of the birds whose antics give us so much pleasure in our gardens or on our window sills? Well it’s obvious, isn’t it? These birds need their eggs. It would be unforgivable to take their eggs. We all know that and we’d never dream of it. So what’s different about hens?
Read More Should Zoos Exist?
The idea that keeping animals in captivity is morally acceptable has long been questioned by those who argue that zoos infringe upon animals’ freedom. In recent years, an increase in research on the ethics of captivity has helped to dispel the misconception that critics of zoos are simply anthropomorphizing the animals they say they’re trying to help.
Read More Good News From Iceland: No Whaling This Season
Good news in our work means animals thrive and we therefore celebrate it. That’s how it was for me this morning when I woke up to the report that there will be no whaling in Iceland this summer. Something my colleagues at Humane Society International and I have fought since Iceland resumed whaling in 2003.
Read More Ireland Will Ban Fur Farms, Saving Thousands of Minks!
Minks are the most common animals to be farmed for fur. Unfortunately, they are subjected to terrifying lives of misery. But fortunately, people are realizing that such cruelty cannot go on. The Czech Republic banned fur farms, Los Angeles banned fur, and big fashion houses like Coach and Chanel have also gone fur free! Other places that have put fur bans into place include San Francisco, India, Sao Paolo, and more. Now, Ireland is joining the list!
Read More Bees Kept for Honey Are Killing Wild Species by Spreading Disease, Study Suggests
Land degradation and the proliferation of pesticides on crops is already known have a catastrophic effect on global bee populations, but the spread of disease from commercial beehives could be the third key driver of decline
Read More Why Isn’t Honey Vegan?
As you journey into adopting a vegan lifestyle or continue your plant-based lifestyle, you may have come across another vegan that has chosen to not eat honey. This may have made you think, “Isn’t honey OK for humans to eat, as it is not hurting a bee?” Well, we have some facts about bees, their honey, and the important role they play on our earth.
Read More How Social Media Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade
Images of chimpanzees and other species appear cute, but they may actually depict animals in dangerous situations. Here’s how to tell what’s safe to share — and how that helps conservation.
Read More Exhausted Polar Bear Wanders Into Siberian City
A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometers from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk in northern Siberia. Climate change has been damaging polar bears’ sea-ice habitats and forced them to scavenge more for food on land, bringing them into contact with people and inhabited areas.
Read More Deforested Areas Bleed Heat to Nearby Forests, Drive Local Extinctions
Areas cleared of forests bleed heat to neighboring forests, and this fuels increases in temperatures there, new research has found. Average temperatures in forests around the world are already rising because of climate change; this leaked heat exacerbates the problem and accelerates local extinctions of forest-dwelling species.
Read More Artifishal: New Film Asks, Have We Reached the End of Wild?
That salmon sitting in your neighborhood grocery store’s fish counter won’t look the same to you after watching Artifishal, a new film from Patagonia. Artifishal looks specifically at how fish hatcheries and fish farms threaten wild salmon populations, which in turn has ecosystem-wide effects — all because of our desire to eat these culturally significant species.
Read More Indian High Court Declares Animals Legal Persons Entitled to Justice
The High Court of Punjab and Haryana has ordered that animals are now to be considered legal persons in the Indian state of Haryana. This means that animals in the state may no longer be treated as “objects” or “property” and are “entitled to justice.”
Read More In the Fight Against Climate Change, Humans and Wildlife Are Allies
Climate change is accelerating at a breakneck pace, already affecting about half of all threatened mammal species and a quarter of threatened birds. And according to a study published in Science last year, if nothing is done to curb our carbon emissions, nearly 50 percent of the planet’s insects, which make up the foundation of food webs all over the globe, could disappear by the end of the century.
Read More Canada Just Banned Whale and Dolphin Captivity
Landmark legislation – bill S-203 – passed through Canada’s Senate banning all whale and dolphin captivity for entertainment.
Read More Extinction Emergency – We Need Action Right Now to Save New Zealand Dolphins
Human activities are pushing some marine species towards extinction, including some of the smallest dolphins in the world. Collectively known as New Zealand dolphins, Hector’s and Māui dolphins live only around the coast of New Zealand and they are dying in fishing nets at a rate that will see them extinct if we don’t change our behaviour around them and remove the destructive fishing nets from their home.
Read More Meet the Animal Rights Activists Facing Prison Time for Rescuing Ducks, Piglets from Factory Farms
Nearly 100 animal rights activists were freed today, after being arrested by police in riot gear for carrying out a rescue mission and protest at the Reichardt Duck Farm in Petaluma, California, which they accuse of engaging in animal torture.
Read More Animals Granted Same Rights as People, Indian Court Rules
Animals living in the North Indian state now have the “corresponding rights, duties, and liabilities of a living person” thanks to the new animal protection law.
Read More Nevada Officially Bans Animal Testing for Cosmetics
The Nevada Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act was signed into law, making Nevada the second state after California to ban cosmetic animal testing.
Read More 10 States Now Encourage Adoption of Research Dogs into Loving Homes
It is a bleak life for the approximately 60,000 dogs and 20,000 cats used in testing and research in U.S. laboratories each year. In March, we revealed the sad plight of some of these animals when we did an undercover investigation at a contract laboratory in Michigan that was testing pesticides, drugs, dental implants and more on beagles and hounds.
Read More Elephant Poaching Declines in Africa, but 15,000 Still Illegally Killed Each Year
Even though there has been notable progress, at current poaching rates elephants are still in danger of becoming virtually extinct on the continent.
Read More Chernobyl Has Become an ‘Accidental Wildlife Sanctuary’ Thriving with Life
In the 30+ years since the disaster zone was evacuated, rare and endangered animals are flourishing. What may be a Zone of Alienation for humans has become an ironic haven for animals. And it begs the question: What if in the end, our dystopian nightmare becomes a dream come true for the rest of nature?
Read More Is Honey Vegan? Why Bees Need It More Than We Do
Is honey vegan? Here’s why bees make it and need it way more than humans do – and how to sweeten your life with honey alternatives.
Read More The Rise of Veganism; 75 Photo Essay
It’s 2019 … and there are signs everywhere that vegan living is infiltrating the mainstream. This is conveyed in this photo collection: The Rise of Veganism.
Read More The Reality of Zoos Is Even Worse Than You Think
At best, the zoo is a fun day for humans who will laugh and point and stare at captive animals who did nothing to deserve their confinement. At worst, it’s a prison that indoctrinates future generations with the shameful belief that animals should be subjugated, abused, and killed simply because we can. Much like the circus freak show, it’s an antiquated, cruel relic that should be banished to the annals of history.
Read More Breaking News: Botswana Lifts Trophy Hunting Ban on Elephants
In a senseless step backward, the southern African nation of Botswana yesterday announced it will once again allow trophy hunters to prey upon its natural bounty of wildlife, including its iconic elephants.
Read More Meat Reduction And Vegan Promotion: A Report
A study with the “largest sample of meat reducers, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans in any research project to date” looks at the dynamics of meat reduction campaigns and campaigns promoting veganism.
Read More Climate Change is Altering the Composition of the World’s Plankton Communities
The composition of the world’s plankton has changed significantly since before the Industrial Revolution, with zooplankton communities shifting poleward by an average 374 miles as a result of warming ocean temperatures. The findings, published in the journal Nature, show the widespread impact climate change is having on marine ecosystems.
Read More Vegan Joaquin Phoenix To Lead Funeral Procession For Dead Farm Animals
Vegan celebrities including Joaquin Phoenix and David Navarro will lead a funeral procession for deceased farm animals next month. The event, which will commemorate the ninth National Animal Rights Day, will be attended by tens of thousands of people in 32 major cities around the world.
Read More Giraffe Added to Red List of Endangered Species
Although conservation efforts benefit some giraffe subspecies, others are in serious trouble. Here’s the lowdown.
Read More This Month in Climate Science: Warming-driven Economic Inequality, Disappearing Alps and Plummeting Penguin Populations
Every month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change’s causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and explores what’s to come if we don’t reduce emissions at a quicker pace. A snapshot of the month’s significant scientific literature, compiled from some of the leading peer-reviewed journals.
Read More What Spending Time With Animals Can Teach Us About Empathy
Research shows interacting with animals can help foster emotional intelligence and human connection. A study of more than 2,500 people in the United States and in Australia found that those with companion animals were much more likely to get to know their neighbors and form friendships than people without animals.
Read More Rating Animals’ Quality Of Life
Animals in factory farms have the worst lives, that virtually no one would want for themselves. This report compares how their suffering may measure up to wild animals, and other humans.
Read More Plastic Waste Is Threatening Ocean Bacteria That Produce 10% of the World’s Oxygen
Chemicals leached from ocean plastic are endangering marine bacteria that produce up to 10% of the world’s oxygen, according to a new study published in the science journal Communications Biology.
Read More How to Do Wildlife Tourism Right
Here are our guidelines for ethical animal encounters.
Read More PETA Persuades Dutch Company to End Near-Drowning Test on Animals
What could an ingredient company possibly learn from forcing animals to swim until they nearly drown? Your guess is as good as ours, but thankfully, PETA scientists have persuaded a Dutch company to give up the cruel, worthless experiment.
Read More Why Sheep Matter: They’re Intelligent, Emotional, and Unique
An important new essay reviews sheep cognition, emotions, and personalities.
Read More Mother Cow Escapes Slaughterhouse to Save Her Calf!
A mother will go to any length to protect her child, even if it means braving the most miserable and inhumane conditions imaginable. Just like humans, mothers of other species are driven to do amazing things to ensure their young ones a brighter future.
Read More New Documentary Reveals What It’s like to Hunt down Whalers
Captain Paul Watson — the vegan founder of international ocean conservation activist group the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — is the subject of a new documentary. Called “Watson,” the film spans decades of Watson’s activism using archival footage meshed with personal stories.
Read More Stop Eating Fish. It’s the Only Way to save the Life in Our Seas
Life is collapsing even faster than on land. The main cause, the UN biodiversity report makes clear, is not plastic. It is not pollution, not climate breakdown, not even the acidification of the ocean. It is fishing. Because commercial fishing is the most important factor, this is the one we talk about least.
Read More The Importance Of Bumblebee Conservation
Since the late 1990s, U.S. bumblebee populations have declined nearly 96%. We generally hear about the population reductions in honeybees due to their larger impact on our economy, while the plight of bumblebees is overlooked. Bumblebees’ contributions to our economy are significant as well, and they play a large role within their native ecosystems. For these reasons it is important that we take dedicated steps toward bumblebee conservation.
Read More WWF – Global Assessment Report on State of Nature Offers Irrefutable Evidence of Nature Loss Emphasising the Urgent Need for Transformative Change
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Read More One Million Species at Risk of Extinction, UN Report Warns
A landmark global assessment warns that the window is closing to safeguard biodiversity and a healthy planet. Yet solutions are in sight. Theh bonds that hold nature together may be at risk of unraveling from deforestation, overfishing, development, and other human activities, a landmark United Nations report warns. Thanks to human pressures, one million species may be pushed to extinction in the next few years, with serious consequences for human beings as well as the rest of life on Earth.
Read More Canada Just Banned Ocean Drilling and Mining to Protect Marine Life
Canada has banned ocean drilling and mining in marine protected areas along the coast. According to Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the new marine protected areas will function like national parks of the sea. Drilling, mining, dumping, and bottom trawling — an industrial fishing method where a large net with heavy weights is dragged along the seabed — will all be prohibited.
Read More Can Madness Save the World?
It is well known that people who fall into those deeply transformative and chaotic states typically referred to as “psychosis” often feel at different points throughout their journeys that they have received a special calling to save the world, or at least the human race. The great irony I have come to appreciate is that while I think it’s true that these individuals are often experiencing some degree of confusion, mixing up different realms of experience, I have come to feel that perhaps the key to saving the world, or at least the human species, may in fact actually be revealed within these extreme experiences.
Read More The Ethical Dilemma of Teaching Kids How the Sausage Gets Made
We teach kids to identify vegetables — this is a carrot, this is an onion. But with animal bodies, we mask the truth: we say ham, hotdog, steak, salami, burger. We do not say, “Finish eating the pig’s belly and then you can have dessert.” Parents work hard to dissociate meat from its animal origins because, given a choice, preschoolers won’t eat a dead animal — but they will eat “bacon” (whatever that is).
Read More Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction
Bavarians will implement a sweeping set of conservation measures, including: (1) Setting aside 13% of state land in special ecological zones, inclusive of ecosystem infrastructure of hedgerows, meadows, and wetlands (2) Organic agriculture must be practiced in 1/3 of Bavarian farmland, as well as cutting out fertilizers on all state-owned farms to reduce nitrogen pollution (3) Protection of wetlands, waterways, and threatened insect populations by eliminating insecticides as much as possible.
Read More Will our Domination be our Downfall?
For those of us who’ve been paying attention to the general state of the world and human society, it’s readily apparent that we as a species have sent ourselves hurtling into the depths of a global crisis that has the potential to wipe ourselves out along with many of our fellow Earthlings. While it’s easy and certainly well justified to point our finger at the many harmful industries that have emerged from our society, could it be that what really lies at the root of this crisis is humankind’s sense of superiority?
Read More Antarctica: Thousands of Emperor Penguin Chicks Wiped Out
Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather. If the sea-ice breaks up too early, the young birds will not have the right feathers to start swimming.This appears to have been what happened in 2016.
Read More Global Warming Is Hitting Ocean Species Hardest, Including Fish Relied on for Food
Local populations of fish, mollusks and other marine animals are disappearing at twice the rate of land-based species, new research shows.
Read More Products That Destroy Rainforests Could Be Banned in California
A new bill could aid rainforest preservation by banning services or products linked to rainforest deforestation. This would include beef, soy, palm oil, paper, and wood pulp amongst other products.
Read More Queen Guitarist Urges Everyone to Buy Vegan Shoes
Musician Brian May swapped out his leather shoes for vegan ones, and his conscience feels so much better.
Read More Why Plastic Pollution is an Environmental Justice Issue
Both around the world and in our own countries, waste often flows into the communities without the money or government support to protect themselves. We need to wake up to the fact that plastic pollution is an environmental justice issue.
Read More Saving Ecosystems to Protect the Climate, and Vice Versa: a Global Deal for Nature
A new study explores how to prevent a sixth great extinction and stop climate change at the same time. Forests, tundra and other ecosystems play critical roles.
Read More The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems
Sometime in the near future it is highly probable that the Arctic will no longer have sea ice, meaning zero ice for the first time in eons, aka: the Blue Ocean Event.Surely, the world is not prepared for the consequences of such an historic event, which likely turns the world topsy-turvy, negatively impacting agriculture with gonzo weather patterns, thus forcing people to either starve or fight. But, the problem may be even bigger than shortages of food.
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