Animals

Neil Young’s New Album EARTH Breaks All the Rules

Neil Young’s New Album EARTH Breaks All the Rules

Neil Young has announced his new, full-length album EARTH. The 98-minute record, out June 17, features an unusual set of collaborators: live animals. Young described his latest project on social media: We made a live record and every creature on the planet seemed to show up. Suddenly all the living things of Earth were in the audience going […]

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    Watch Racing Extinction: It Will Change the Way You View the World

    Watch Racing Extinction: It Will Change the Way You View the World

    On Dec. 2, 2015, Discovery Channel premiered Louis Psihoyos’ new film, Racing Extinction, in 220 countries around the world. This riveting film covers the planet’s sixth and currently ongoing mass extinction, named the Anthropocene Extinction, which is largely the result of mankind. Psihoyos details what many scientists and experts believe are the causes behind this […]

    Antartica’s Penguins Need Your Help, Become a Citizen Scientist Today

    Antartica’s Penguins Need Your Help, Become a Citizen Scientist Today

    In case anyone needed a reason to spend hours on end looking at pictures of adorable penguins, we now have a valid excuse: scientists need us to. Researchers from the University of Oxford studying penguins in Antarctica are conducting the largest ever census of penguins and have launched the latest version of their project, PenguinWatch […]

    Thousands of Dead Sardines Found Floating in Chile’s Queule River

    Thousands of Dead Sardines Found Floating in Chile’s Queule River

    By Orietta Estrada A massive fish kill in the Queule River Estuary in Chile last week has left fishermen overworked, residents in fear and thousands of tons of dead sardines floating along local shorelines. According to a statement on the website Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (SERNAPESCA), the entire area has been declared a […]

    Sardine Fishing Banned in Pacific Northwest as Stocks Hit Historic Low

    Sardine Fishing Banned in Pacific Northwest as Stocks Hit Historic Low

    Regulators from the U.S. Pacific Fishery Management Council have banned sardine fishing off California, Oregon and Washington to allow the struggling species to recover. Sardine stocks are at historic lows and might get worse. This is the second year in a row that the West coast fishing regulatory body was forced to take this action. […]

    97% of Endangered Species Threatened by 3 Common Pesticides

    97% of Endangered Species Threatened by 3 Common Pesticides

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released its first-ever analysis on the effects of three common pesticides—chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion—on endangered and threatened species and designated critical habitat nationwide. The resounding conclusion? Pesticides are terrible for them. According to the report, malathion and chlorpyrifos harms an astounding 97 percent of the 1,782 animals and […]