Eastern cougars that once prowled North America from Michigan to South Carolina were officially declared extinct and removed from the U.S. endangered species list on Monday, eight decades after the last confirmed sighting of the wild feline predator.
Animal Legal Defense Fund, a legal advocacy organization for animals, released the 12th annual year-end report (2017) ranking the animal protection laws of all 50 states. For the 10th year in a row, Illinois is in first place...
In a recent episode of PCRM's 'The Exam Room,' Dr. Neal Barnard & host Chuck Carroll talk about cheese, or "dairy crack," and discuss the behind-the-scenes fight being waged in Washington, D.C., to ensure we eat as much of it as possible.
For years the Vancouver Aquarium fended off pressure from animal right activists, local government and residents, but it finally announced that it would end the practice of keeping cetaceans in captivity.
The new documentary film Game Changers is being applauded for addressing myths surrounding animal protein and the vegan diet from a fitness perspective.
Boonchai Bach, a kingpin of wildlife trafficking in Asia, has been arrested in Thailand, in connection with the smuggling of 14 rhino horns worth over $1 million from Africa into Thailand last month.
A group of entrepreneurs are now turning to artificial intelligence with the goal of making the world’s diet vegan by default, to make a plant-based option the easiest, cheapest and most convenient one on the menu.
"A mind does not have to be human to suffer." The scientific community has been slow to accept that fish feel pain, but now the vast majority of biologists and veterinarians agree they do.