Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered.

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the ...
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Natalie Ahwesh: Don't experiment on animals and save human lives

Just a few short years ago, the nation learned about 4,000 beagles rescued from a breeding facility in Virginia run by a company called Invigo. They had been warehoused in filth and deprivation, ...
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Faith Restored As Neighbors Form Human Chain To Save Dog Trapped In Canal

Earlier this week, while out for a walk with his dog near their home in Bogota, Colombia, Nicolas Gallardo witnessed humanity ...
Phys.org

Animals are adapting to coexist with humans. But how?

Some say the oldest known human settlement is Uruk, in modern-day Iraq. Others say Jericho, in Palestine. Wherever it is, it must be the place where synurbization—the process of wildlife adapting to ...

A Carnival of Animals

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Salon

Of honeybees and polar bears: Saving beloved species isn’t enough — but it’s a good start

Yet in the past 12 years, at least 467 species have gone extinct, with most of these creatures — including a type of rodent called the melomy and a Hawaiian tree snail called Achatinella apexfulva — ...
Worcester Magazine

Veterinary blood banks facing shortage. Your dog could help.

Tufts' Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine maintains a blood bank, but they and other veterinary blood banks are facing ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Scavenger Animals Are in Trouble, and That Could Spell Bad News for Human Health

Scavengers like turkey vultures remove millions of tons of waste each year by consuming carrion. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Scavengers are in trouble—and their decline could be harmful to human ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Five Dramatic Ways Animals Respond to Human Noise, From Mimicking Car Alarms While Wooing Mates to Calling Higher Over the Din of Traffic

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health issues Olivia Ferrari As human noise increases around the world, some animals ...
Fort Collins Coloradoan

Bear spray can save your life in a wildlife encounter. Here's how and when to use it

Wildlife attacks on humans in Colorado are extremely rare. The risk goes up when recreating with dogs, which are at much bigger risk of being attacked by wildlife than humans. Bear spray is a highly ...