One of China's most respected journalists, Hu Jia, has just been sentenced to 3 1/2 years of imprisonment. The charge made against him? "Subverting state authority".

Cheyenne Frontier Days has decided to outlaw the use of hand-held electric shock devices at the rodeo except in emergency situations where they are needed to prevent injuries.

In April, world-renowned animal welfare experts traveled to China to take part in a landmark conference on farm animal welfare.

A public protest met the start of Catalonia's bullfighting season, which signals the slaughter of over a hundred bulls each year. Anti-bullfighting organizations took to the Barcelona streets in April to campaign against cruelty. Will you sign up to suppo

The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race - accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, a new publication suggests.

WSPA has identified bear farming as the planet's worst example of animal suffering inflicted by humans, and the PSA is part of a worldwide campaign to highlight the plight of the 12,000 bears living in Asia's bear farms.

Over the last 25 years, the province has lost 65 percent of its forests - an area almost twice the size of New Jersey - resulting in an 84 percent decline in Sumatran elephant populations. Sumatran tiger populations declined by 70 percent, to less than 20

Despite its profound impact on society, mental health remains at the bottom of the priority list for health care policy makers. Particularly alarming is the fact that delays in treating mental illness can have very serious consequences, including the dete

In January, the Greenpeace ship the Esperanza followed the Japanese whaling fleet for fourteen days in the Southern Ocean, preventing them from hunting over 100 whales. Greenpeace Canada oceans campaigner Sarah King gives us the real deal on what's going

Instead of food, we're consuming "edible foodlike substances" -- no longer the products of nature but of food science. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. In the so-called Western diet