The next time you buy a new comforter or a warm jacket or a sleeping bag or some throw pillows, think first. There's a plethora of amazing alternatives to down.
nytimes.com | Pete Browne | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
"The project aims to bring attention to the plight of gorillas," said Lillian Nsubuga, a spokeswoman for the Uganda Wildlife Authority, "and any money...
Dan Agin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Some people argue that humans are merely crazy apes, but the counter-argument, that humans and apes are dramatically different, is not easily dismissed. So, how different are we from other animals?
Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
(AP) WASHINGTON — An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending...
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
This bear wasn't caught with his paws in the honey jar but close to it. He was trapped in a skateboarding park in Colorado. After spending the night i...
Michael Markarian | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
By encouraging affordable pet care, the bill not only promotes animal health and well-being, as well as our well-being, but could also help to stimulate the economy.
Global Post | Patrick Winn | Posted 09.17.2009 | World
BANGKOK - It was a sad old beast, for sure. As the elephant dragged its feet towards city hall, the chains draped from its neck swung like twin pendu...
Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
All of us who eat meat, attend rodeos, circuses, zoos and horse races and yet hand Michael Vick the bill for more systemic animal abuses in our society may find ourselves needing another chance one day, too.
Doyle Albee | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
Bring Vick back. Just make him work for it. The animals he tortured and killed deserve that, at the very least.
Betsy Saul | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
it is heartbreaking to see wonderful pets staying in shelters day after day, year after year -- just because they are too large or too shy, have broken limbs, or are the "wrong" color.
Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green
Tuesday morning, Novartis CEO Dr. Daniel Vasella spoke to CNBC about the arson attack on his vacation home in Austria. The Wall Street Journal reports...
AP | THOMAS BRUNNER | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
BERN, Switzerland — Drug maker Novartis AG said Tuesday that animal rights activists have stolen the ashes of its CEO's mother and set fire to h...
Diane Francis | Posted 08.31.2009 | Business
Canadian politicians have been in capable of ending this primitive practice - the largest killing of marine mammals in the world - even as damage to the country's reputation grows.
BBC | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
Animal rights activists have filed a petition in Sri Lanka's Supreme Court to reverse the removal of two baby elephants from an elephant orphanage....
Judith Ellis | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green
While the work that PETA does is commendable in many aspects, I often think that they go too far
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.30.2009 | Green
Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo along with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection hosted an exotic pet amnesty day on Saturday. The event ...
Michael Markarian | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
The lawmakers doing the bidding for Big Agribusiness simply don't get that the American public wants to see all animals treated humanely, including animals raised for food.
AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Former game show host and longtime animal rights activist Bob Barker has made a personal appeal to the Eastern Band of Cheroke...
Pam Spaulding | Posted 08.28.2009 | Entertainment
It is people like Michael Vick who foment fear and hatred of certain dog breeds by breeding them and training them to kill one another.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 08.26.2009 | Green
Would you feel differently about circus animals doing back flips or dancing on cue if you knew they were being hit with a bull hook or struck with a whip?
Ellen Susman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
The great Mahatma Gandhi said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by how it treats its animals." If we are to be judged by his adage, then we have failed.
Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
It's summer, and as many head to the beach with hopes of enjoying fresh seafood, the practice of killing live lobsters in boiling water is drawing new...
New York Daily News | By Dorian Block | Posted 08.16.2009 | New York
A heartless kitty killer hissed angrily at animal rights activists Wednesday, grinning widely as she took credit for stuffing the helpless pet into a ...
Val Brown | Posted 08.15.2009 | Living
There was no way I was going to do two detoxes in a row, so I decided that in a very unscientific way I would do them simultaneously. This is not as unsound as it sounds.
AP | TOM ODULA | Posted 08.14.2009 | World
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya seized more than 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of illegal ivory and black rhinoceros horn – some of it still bloody &n...
Ari Solomon | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green