When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Emergency events that impact animal agriculture operations can sometimes lead to the “depopulation” of entire herds or flocks of farmed animals. Depopulation involves the mass killing of animals in ...

Animal teams at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute provide expert care for each of the Zoo’s residents every day of the year. But when heat indexes soar over 90 or even ...

One of the consequences of the current coronavirus pandemic is that it has brought us face-to-face with our own mortality. Not only are we vulnerable to disease, but we can also share diseases with ...

Biologist Adam Hartstone-Rose had one big question on his mind heading into this month's solar eclipse: Why are animals so stressed out during totality? On April 8, as the moon crossed in front of the ...

"Evidence of animal sentience is everywhere: It's a matter of why sentience evolved, not if it evolved." —A Universal Declaration on Animal Sentience: No Pretending Animal sentience is not science ...

National Geographic finds continued animal suffering and exploitation in these YouTube videos. Here's what's being done months after the platform pledged to take swift action. YouTube is rife with ...

As long as humans have existed, they’ve killed animals. But the necessity of some types of animal killing are now questioned by many. So can humans ever stop killing animals entirely? And if not, what ...

Our relationships with nonhuman animals (animals) are complex, challenging, and paradoxical. We allow dogs and cats to breed themselves to death and continue to harm and kill other animals and destroy ...