The United Nations had some hopeful news to report as the world marked the first International Day for Mine Awareness on Tuesday: It will take perhaps a decade, not hundreds of years, to get rid of millions of land mines in 82 countries

two PETA employees have been charged with euthanizing and dumping in an Ahoskie garbage bin were killed by injections of pentobarbital,

Claims that observers interfered with the East Coast seal hunt are a "setup" by Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn and his ministry to protect the practice and the industry from public scrutiny, a leading U.S. animal-rights group charged Monday...

A dog's cries led rescuers to a puppy that was buried alive in eastern Washington.The dog is now up for adoption.

Forecasters for private weather service AccuWeather say NE may be the next U.S. region to take direct hit from a major hurricane, saying he sees a "cycle within a cycle" when he compares previous periods of intense hurricane activity over last decade.

A group of animal rights activists observing Canada's annual harp seal hunt were arrested on Sunday for getting too close to hunters killing the animals off the eastern coast, officials said. The 6 activists belong to the Humane Society of the U. S.

ngela Zumwalt,r of the new Citizens' Pet Responsibility Committee said the committee's mission would be directed toward education and spay/neuter initiatives to control the problems caused by pet overpopulation.

For the first time in eight years, a debate concerning the use of animals in research was held Thursday on the University of Wisconsin campus.

Officials at the Brevard Zoo released the first photos of its newest baby, a 5-foot--9-inch, gangly-legged, long-necked male Masai giraffe. The baby giraffe is "active and strong," officials said.

22 March, 2006 - HUNTERS are preparing to kill more than 300,000 baby seals this week despite growing international protests against the world's largest massacre of marine mammals and a new threat to the animals from global warming, the Independent has...