Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers ~enviro pollution.water Article 719 words 47 votes
How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours ~enviro Article 643 words 9 votes
When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice ~life work Article 7479 words 19 votes
Colombia will try to control invasive hippo population through sterilization, transfer, euthanasia ~enviro Article 370 words 21 votes
The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species ~enviro Article 1376 words 9 votes
Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring ~enviro Article 879 words 23 votes
Dozens of reindeer have been killed for crossing into Russia, as Norway fixes Arctic fence to stop the Sámi herds crossing the border ~enviro Article 451 words 7 votes
North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples ~humanities.history Article 1183 words 31 votes
Finland, Europe's leading producer of fox fur, has begun slaughtering 120,000 foxes and mink to stem an outbreak of avian flu that has hit fur farms ~enviro Article 290 words 8 votes
Tokitae, the star of Miami Seaquarium, dies after half a century in captivity ~enviro conservation Article 608 words 32 votes
White-nose syndrome in bats was detected in Texas in February 2020. Scientists are only now understanding the population loss. ~science biology Article 1863 words 9 votes
Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins ~enviro Link 38 votes
Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end ~enviro Link 19 votes
Controversial research project in Norway on whales' hearing suspended after a whale drowns ~science biology.marine Article 496 words 8 votes
Europe has lost over half a billion birds in forty years. The single biggest cause? Pesticides and fertilisers ~enviro pollution Article 1005 words 18 votes
The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue ~enviro Link 5 votes
Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death ~enviro Article 690 words, published May 9 2023 12 votes
Walrus Freya killed by Norway gets Oslo sculpture – online campaign earlier raised $25,000 to make the statue ~arts Article 52 words 6 votes
What Denmark's dead hedgehogs tell us about their lives – and how we can help them ~enviro conservation Article 995 words 3 votes
World's oldest European hedgehog discovered in Denmark – posthumous discovery gives conservationists hope for the mammals' future preservation ~enviro conservation Article 753 words 4 votes
Neuralink is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths ~science Article 2392 words 7 votes
The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us ~enviro Article 1338 words 6 votes
Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks? ~enviro conservation Article 956 words, published Nov 7 2017 5 votes
Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism ~enviro Article 38 words 4 votes
Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season ~enviro Article 811 words, published Jun 14 2022 2 votes
Finland, Sweden and Norway to cull wolf population – conservation groups appeal to EU to take action against slaughter they allege flouts rules ~enviro conservation Article 938 words 9 votes
Group of monkeys kill over 250 dogs for 'revenge' in Indian town ~news india.maharashtra Article 535 words 6 votes
Revenge of the apes: Monkeys in Maharashtra's Beed District on a murderous rampage after dogs kill one of their infants ~news india.maharashtra Article 322 words 6 votes
Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day ~enviro Article 946 words 11 votes
Denmark's plans to cull seventeen million mink is facing legal obstacles after the government admitted it did not have a legal basis for the order ~health Article 226 words 10 votes
Danish veterinarians and farmers have begun culling at least 2.5 million minks in northern Denmark after coronavirus has been reported in at least sixty-three farms ~health Article 426 words 6 votes
Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott ~enviro Article 415 words, published Jul 21 2020 14 votes
What a mass of rotting carcasses taught scientists – when 323 reindeer were killed by lightning on a remote Norwegian plateau, their bodies were left for nature to take its course ~science biology Article 1331 words 6 votes
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off ~enviro conservation Article 750 words 11 votes
Labs are euthanizing thousands of mice in response to coronavirus pandemic ~science biology medicine Article 1547 words 10 votes
Alarm over North Atlantic right whale's survival after recent deaths ~enviro Article 445 words 5 votes
Twenty pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland ~enviro Article 254 words 4 votes
'The sport is at a tipping point': Inside US horse racing’s deadly crisis ~sports Article 1570 words 5 votes
British trophy hunters paying to shoot 100 puffins at a time during trips to Iceland ~enviro Article 535 words 7 votes
Over two hundred dead reindeer found on Norway's Arctic Svalbard ~enviro climate change Article 240 words 10 votes
Dozens of dead beached whales have been spotted by sightseers during a helicopter flight over western Iceland ~enviro Article 190 words 9 votes