An overview of the global movement using laws and courts to strengthen protections for animals in farming, research, and daily life.

There is ever-growing interest in the ways in which a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) deal with the ups and downs of their lived experiences in many different contexts. In his new edited ...

Our relationships with nonhuman animals (animals) are complex, challenging, and paradoxical. We allow dogs and cats to breed themselves to death and continue to harm and kill other animals and destroy ...

Picture an “animal” in your mind right now. What does it look like? A dog? A lion? Maybe a sloth, pangolin, naked mole-rat, or even just a human? There’s a good chance that you imagined a mammal, ...

Perhaps you’ve seen the late-night appeals on cable channels from animal rights groups—the public service announcements of a starving dog or cat that will have a better life if you only send ...

A dog gives a protective bark, sensing a nearby stranger. A cat slinks by disdainfully, ignoring anyone and everyone. A cow moos in contentment, chewing its cud. At least, that’s what we may think ...

Ending use of animals in teaching and limiting surgery in research settings to veterinarians among suggested changes Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter ...

Across North America, staffing shortages and the pandemic make it a struggle to help homeless dogs, cats, and rabbits. Buddha, Atlas, and Adonis peer out of a kennel at the Fulton County animal ...

Western Michigan University recognizes the importance of Service Animals as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA) and the broader category of Assistance Animals under ...