Tag: Animal welfare
Horseshoe crab blood is vital for testing intravenous drugs, but new...
Kristoffer Whitney, Rochester Institute of Technology and Jolie Crunelle, Rochester Institute of Technology
If you have ever gotten a...
What is ethical animal research? A scientist and veterinarian explain
Lana Ruvolo Grasser, National Institutes of Health and Rachelle Stammen, Emory University
A proposed measure in Switzerland would have...
Pit bulls went from America’s best friend to public enemy –...
Colin Dayan, Vanderbilt University
As recently as 50 years ago, the pit bull was America’s favorite dog. Pit bulls...
Supreme Court grapples with animal welfare in a challenge to a...
David Favre, Michigan State University
Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are...
Zoos and aquariums shift to a new standard of ‘animal welfare’...
Michael J. Renner, Drake University
In 1980 I visited the zoo in a major U.S. city and found row after row of bare concrete...
Food is poised to get a lot more expensive, but it...
Evan Fraser, University of Guelph and Lenore Newman, University of The Fraser Valley
As we emerge from the pandemic,...
How a flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872...
Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee
In 1872 the U.S. economy was growing as the young nation industrialized and expanded westward. Then in the autumn, a...
Python skin jackets and elephant leather boots: How wealthy Western nations...
Maria Ivanova, University of Massachusetts Boston and Candace Famiglietti, University of Massachusetts Boston
Three-quarters of new and emerging infectious diseases in humans originate in wildlife....
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
