Hong Kong Announces Plan to Ban the Ivory Trade
Hong Kong announced on Wednesday that it plans to ban the domestic ivory trade.
Farming Frogs Can Save Them From Extinction
Diseases are killing off many of Panama’s frog and salamander species. Are there enough animals left to breed them in captivity?
Save the renewable fuel standard
Help us tell the EPA to keep the Renewable Fuel Standard and keep the United States moving away from dependence on foreign oil.
This City Banned K-Cups — Is Your Town Next?
Keurig isn’t the only brand of single-use coffee pods coming under fire in Hamburg, Germany.
NAACP Teams With Low-Income Children’s Program to Help Parents Too
The partnership is aimed at providing families with the economic opportunities they otherwise aren't afforded.
Despite Global Economy Plummeting Into Despair, Mega Banks Boast All-Time Record Profits
After seven years of benefiting from the greatest transfer of wealth in history, the U.S. banking industry topped it off with record profits in 2015.
How Will the Fight for $15 Reckon with Harmful Proposals From an Unlikely Ally?
The Fight for $15’s narrow notion of those interests has upset some and gratified others. But don’t expect it change. The campaign has been winning, after all.
Tilikum, SeaWorld’s Notorious Killer Whale, Is Near Death
The 35-year-old orca, taken from his mother at the age of two, killed three people during his years of captivity, galvanizing animal activists against the company.
Let’s End Torture in U.S. Prisons
Survivors call solitary confinement “living death.”