Swiss government officials signed a sweeping animal welfare bill that will take effect in March. The new legislation prohibits the practice of killing lobsters by boiling them alive.
This decision makes Italy the 41st country to ban animals in circuses -- something that countries as diverse as Romania, Mexico, Greece, Singapore, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Iran, and Colombia have already done.
Human’s impact on nature is unmistakable, from vast swaths of lost forest to heaps of trash on beaches. Before these species go extinct one photographer is trying to document these species facing the struggle before it’s too late.
Do social pressures cause the evolution of big brains? The debate is ongoing.
The total flying insect biomass decreased by more than 75 percent over 27 years in protected areas, according to a study .
According to the World Wildlife Fund said unseasonably extensive amounts of sea ice around the colony forced the adult penguins to travel further than normal to forage for food. The babies did not survive the parents' journeys.
Neonicotinoids, the chemicals commonly found in pesticides, have been linked to colony collapse in bee populations.
Livestock is 'a bigger contributor to global warming and environmental degradation than all forms of transportation,' Mr Branson said.
A plan to plant 1 billion trees in Pakistan to help offset deforestation was achieved this month.
New research suggests that the ability to intuit emotional states from vocalization is hardwired in humans and land animals.
Schools in three cities will serve 140,000 vegan meals per week.
Two vertebrate species go extinct every year on average, but few people notice..
Illegal fishing, logging and poaching, are impacting two-thirds of the 57 natural World Heritage sites monitored by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) this year.
The non-profit organisation is joining forces with the Body Shop to launch Forever Against Animal Testing, a campaign to enforce a global ban by 2020. They plan to take the campaign all the way to the United Nations.
An architecture studio designed the Camp Adventure Treetop Experience in Denmark, - a unique destination that aims to reconnect people to nature by elevating them high above the treetop canopy.
