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Zoos in Europe ‘kill 5,000 healthy animals a year’
Up to 5,000 healthy zoo animals – including hundreds of larger ones such as giraffes, lions and bears – are killed by zoos in Europe every year, it is claimed today.
The chemistry of conservation
Blue whale conservation gets a boost
Valdivia, Chile: The approval by the government of Chile of the largest Marine Protected Area (MPA) in continental Chile is a boost to conservation efforts for blue whales and dolphins. The Tic-Toc MPA on Chile’s southern coast announced this week follows almost 15 years of work by a number of organizations including WWF to protect […]
Heads for steel
Most students, by the time they leave Harvard, can speak intelligently across a range of topics, from special relativity to the foundations of ethical reasoning. Only a few graduate with the ability to bend a chunk of steel to the limits of imagination. In the Instructional Physics/SEAS Instrument Lab, a professionally outfitted machine shop tucked […]
Video of Woman Hit in Head by Whale Goes Viral [VIDEO]
A whale watching expedition turned into a very one-sided aquatic boxing match when a woman got hit in the head by a whale’s tail as it breached the water.
Scottish seals still sliced to death by propellers ‘because ministers are breaking international law’
Seals in Scotland are being maimed and killed by ships’ propellers and ministers are breaking the law by doing nothing to save them, according to a panel of leading wildlife groups.
Rhode Island Lawmakers Receive 2013 Humane State Legislator Awards
State Rep. Patricia Serpa, D-27, and U.S. Rep. Raymond Gallison, D-69, are being recognized as Rhode Island’s Humane State Legislators for 2013.
Inspiring Girl Scout troop helps save endangered species with WWF and Earth Hour
For the past five years, a Girl Scout troop in the US state of New Jersey has mobilized its community in the city of Medford to participate in Earth Hour. This year, Ambassador Troop 24349 is using its power to make a difference for wildlife in far away Nepal. The scouts are harnessing their love […]
Negative plus
For years, researchers have worked to develop novel molecules for therapeutic or research purposes, and have relied on directed evolution as a powerful technique for generating molecules that exhibit the properties they want. Led by David Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, a team of Harvard […]
