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Animal Rights

Quoting Dr. Seuss, Court Throws Out Pipeline Permit and Implores Forest Service to 'Speak for the Trees' Instead of Corporate Polluters

'A Great Shame': Taken From Oceans Around the World, 100% of Sea Turtles in New Study Had Plastics in Their Bellies

Julia Conley, staff writer

"How many more studies like this do we need for corporations to take strong action to curb the production of throwaway plastic which is predicted to quadruple by 2050?"

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Challenge to Trump's Environmentally Disastrous Plan to 'Wreak Havoc Along the Border' Blocked by Supreme Court

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

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'A human-made barrier on the scale of the proposed border wall would have a...

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Trump Greenlights Another 'Violent, Destructive' Assault on Marine Life With Seismic Testing Approval

Jon Queally, staff writer

Trump, warn conservationists, is essentially giving the fossil fuel industry...

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In Heartwarming 'Act of Thanksgiving Mercy,' Farmer Turns Over 100 Turkeys to Animal Rights Group

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'Final, Pathetic Stab' at Cherished Endangered Species as House GOP Votes to Strip Protections From Gray Wolves

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In 'Loud and Clear' Rebuke of Factory Farming, California Passes World's 'Strongest Animal Welfare Law'

'Sleepwalking Towards Edge of a Cliff': 60% of Earth's Wildlife Gone Since 1970

Aurelia Skipwith

Trump Nominates Ex-Monsanto Exec to 'Help the Most Anti-Environmental Administration in History Do Even More Damage'

3 Women Charged With Grand Theft Felony For Saving Thrown Away Baby Cow

'One of Most Disturbing Articles I Have Ever Read' Scientist Says of Study Detailing Climate-Driven 'Bugpocalypse'

Stay of Execution for Yellowstone Grizzly Bears as Court Rules Trump Admin Illegally Gutted Protections

A grizzly bear

In Win for Wildlife, Yellowstone Area Grizzlies Get 'Stay of Execution'

Cecil

As Trump Rolls Back Barriers, Big-Game Hunters—Including Rich GOP Donors—Granted Dozens of Permits for Lion "Trophies"

Trump Takes 'Wrecking Ball' to Endangered Species Act, Opens Door for Corporate Attack on Wildlife

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Jane Goodall Among Creative Protesters Seeking to Stop Wyoming's First Grizzly Trophy Hunt in Four Decades

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Oceana

Feds to Authorize Companies to Harm Dolphins and Whales with Seismic Airgun Blasting Activities in Atlantic Ocean

Direct Action Everywhere

Massive Farm Releases 100 Turkeys -- to Activists Facing Felony Charges For Investigating It

Earthjustice

House Republican Leadership Returns to Extinction Agenda, Passes Legislation Targeting Wolves

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Canada Urged to Expand Fisheries Closures to Save North Atlantic Right Whale

Earthjustice

Supreme Court Halts Effort to Reinstate Failed “No Otter Zone” in California

As You Sow

A Big Push in the Right Direction’ — European Parliament Approves Restrictions on Use of Antibiotics on Farm Animals

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Tom Engelhardt

A Bad World for Migrants (and I Don’t Even Mean Human Ones)

Subhankar Banerjee

Biological Annihilation: A Planet in Loss Mode

Jacy Reese

Emptying the Cages

Cameron Harsh

How to Combat Climate Change with What You Eat

Michael Sainato, Chelsea Skojec

Police Arrest 58 Activists After Factory Conditions Exposed at 'Free Range' Perdue Supplier

Frida Berrigan

The Cheetah in Us All

Lorraine Chow

3.4 Million Chickens, 5,500 Hogs Killed in Florence's Flooding

Elizabeth Bruenig

Cruelty Without Consequence Is Trump’s Way

Meena Miriam Yust

Why Treaty Protection Is Needed for Migratory Pollinators

Lee Camp

The No. 1 Cause of Climate Change the Media Don’t Mention

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