Harbour porpoises are among the smallest marine mammals, once abundant in the North Sea, and recognizable by their cute little squeaks they make when surfacing. They are shy and rely heavily on echolocation to navigate, communicate, and hunt.

This is mind-blowing: there’s a place in the Amazon that scientists argue has more species per square kilometer than anywhere else on the planet. Ferocious jaguars, emerald green boas, powerful harpy eagles, shy tapirs, and more…all sharing the same forest home (see lots of pictures below!!

It sounds like something out of a dystopian nightmare, but it’s real: pregnant horses are restrained and drained of massive amounts of blood , leaving them weak and traumatized —all so the pharmaceutical industry can extract PMSG, a hormone used to fuel factory farms. And Iceland is at the center of this horror.

5 million donkeys are killed every year to produce a special kind of gelatin used in cosmetic products and supplements that claim to enhance health and preserve youth. Some donkeys are skinned alive.

Donald Trump is about to get a terrifying gift from the European Union: direct access to our biometric data and, possibly, our DNA. EU officials are quietly negotiating a deal that would let US agencies search through European databases.

A company in Spain has a plan to torture a million octopuses per year – by raising them in crowded tanks and then killing them by plunging them in ice water, which causes a slow, agonizing death. The company — a seafood giant called Nueva Pescanova — knows octopuses are highly intelligent and feel pleasure, pain, joy and fear, but this is its way of turning a huge profit.

High up in Ecuador’s Andes, an ancient forest is the last refuge for a tiny hummingbird on the edge of extinction. It’s one of the last remaining ecological refuges outside of the country’s capital, home to rare high-Andean wildlife and remarkable biodiversity.

It’s happening every time you scroll Facebook and Instagram: a ‘miracle cure’ for your chronic disease, a crypto tip that looks like it’s from Elon Musk, or even a “government grant” that’ll help you fix up your house. A bombshell report just revealed that 10% of Meta’s revenue – a whopping $16 billion – comes from ads promoting these scams.

His song can travel an entire ocean. Whales carry an extraordinary library of songs about migration routes, feeding grounds, and even relationships.