Local restaurant Peak City Grill announced it will be adding to its menu grass-fed beef from nearby Harris-Robinette Beef, a Pinetops, NC farm that raises all of its cattle exclusively on pasture.
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Hundreds of Events and Thousands of Lives Saved Mark 20th Annual World Spay Day
On World Spay Day 2014 more than 600 event organizers around the world hosted hundreds of events and spaying or neutering thousands of animals, raising awareness of how lowering birth rates reduces the number of animals who will face euthanasia in shelters or death on the streets
Actress Emma Stone helps fight wildlife crime
Real life superhero Emma Stone helps WWF protect tigers, rhinos and eles at ehour.me/EHpuppies Following the recent announcement that Spider-Man is the first superhero ambassador for Earth Hour, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 actress Emma Stone has come out in support for the war against wildlife crime. Stone is supporting a WWF crowdfunding project training puppies to become sniffer […]
Sizing up the Big Bang
Astronomer Robert Wilson lifted his fingers to make air quotes around “problem.” The Nobel laureate’s problem occurred 50 years ago and would help explain the origins of the universe. In fact, it turned out to be the echo of the Big Bang from 13.7 billion years ago, which Wilson detected through a massive, horn-shaped antenna. […]
A bird on the brink of extinction, the Tahiti monarch has one hope – you
You may think it’s curious, but at the moment no one can tell you which is the rarest bird in the world. Not precisely, anyway. A decade ago, there was no doubt – it was the po’ouli, one of a family of small songbirds on Hawaii known as honeycreepers. Only discovered in 1973, the po’ouli’s […]
World’s longest oyster found in Denmark is as big as a size 10 shoe – and still growing
Biologists in Denmark have discovered the world’s largest oyster, measuring in at nearly 14 inches long, and say that the giant mollusc is not done growing yet.
Out of disaster, a new design
On Christmas Eve, Maria Ignacia Arrasate, M.Des.S. ’14, was fly-fishing in southern Chile. She checked her smartphone and got some good news: You won. Natalia Gaerlan, M.U.P. ’14, got the same good news. The message popped onto her monitor while she was Skyping with family in Europe. “You” was a team of six students at […]
Federal Appeals Court Asked to Uphold Regulations Protecting Tennessee Walking Horses
Regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to prevent the cruel practice of horse “soring” are being challenged in federal appeals court, prompting the Humane Society of the United States to file a friend-of-the-court brief. The HSUS is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold the regulations, which […]
Tangled Pelican Rescued
A pelican dangles from a tree in South Florida, but visiting students call the right authorities to make sure she is rescued. She is now on her way to good health at South Florida Wildlife Center.
In pictures: Expedition to Ecuador
An expedition to Ecuador to survey biodiversity.
