Approximately 500,000 puppies per year are bred in puppy mills, facilities known for their filthy, overcrowded conditions and the unhealthy animals they produce. Each of the 4,000-5,000 puppy mills in the U.S., most of which are located in the Midwest, houses between 75 to 150 breeding animals. Onl...

During the week of the much-anticipated Ethiopian millennium in September, the mayor of Addis Ababa announced a “dog poisoning campaign” to eradicate rabies in the new millennium. When HSI confirmed the announcement, we immediately asked our online advocates to help us protest this inhumane plan, w...

Du'a Khalil Aswad was beaten, kicked and stoned for 30 minutes at the hands of a lynch mob before one of her attackers launched a carefully aimed fatal blow....

A MAJOR investigation will today be announced into the reasons why so few people who commit wildlife crimes are brought to justice.

The review, by the Inspectorate of Prosecution in Scotland, will examine every part of the prosecution process from the moment a case of badger baiting, bird poison...

When Christine Gamache was driving along Interstate 205 and saw a pig fall out the back of a tractor-trailer rig, she didn't just scratch her head and drive on. She pulled over and stood by the 500-pound animal, possibly averting a freeway pile-up, the State Patrol said....

Last year, studies shown that there are at least 35 different animals with world populations of under 1000. But which are the rarest, the animals on the brink of extinction?...

Plans to phase out the traditional lightbulb by 2011 have been announced by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn....

BEIJING (AP) -- The Chinese crested tern, a rare sea bird whose eggs are prized by some as a delicacy, is likely to be extinct in five years if authorities do not step up protection efforts, a conservation group said Friday....

The scheme, proposed by Performing Animals Welfare Standards International (PAWSI), is for an industry-led scheme for the registration of animal suppliers, circuses and individual trainers....

A DOG has been found skinned and beheaded, with its paws cut off and legs bound together, in the latest sickening animal attack in Queensland....

A guide to recycling batteries....

The problem with all radioactive waste, including radioactive by-products from experimentation and military uses, is that it is created without a permanent means of disposal....

It’s six o’clock, you’re tired, you get in the door and dump your groceries on the kitchen bench. The last thing on your mind is saving the planet. However, the classic art of culinary cuisine, eco-style is not all that hard to achieve. Be the next Martha Stewart or Jamie Oliver and impress your gu...

Vote! Do you recycle bottles for money?...