Trump is already trying to gut one of the strongest wildlife laws in the world . Now his Defense Secretary is pushing an extraordinary legal move that would let the oil industry dodge the Endangered Species Act altogether in the Gulf of Mexico — driving the Rice’s whale, one of the rarest whales on Earth, towards extinction.

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

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 year ago, Turkish customs officers opened a crate labelled “50 rabbits” and found a malnourished, five-month-old gorilla in a dirty T-shirt. They named him Zeytin – “Olive” in Turkish.

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.

Polar bear cubs could legally be killed for oil. That’s Trump’s sick plan to make his upcoming auction of Alaska's Arctic Refuge more attractive to fossil fuel corporations.

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.

Millions of acres of rainforest and peatland in the Congo Basin are being auctioned off for oil drilling, threatening to tear open one of the most unspoiled, carbon-rich places on Earth — and the only home of wild bonobos. This is the most aggressive push yet for oil in the Congo — and local partners are racing to secure legal protection for 1.

Reckless tech billionaires are racing to build AI ‘superintelligence’ - raising massive ethical and security concerns. From controlling nuclear weapons, to replacing millions of jobs, to creating deadly viruses - unfettered AI development could have catastrophic consequences for us all.