Animals
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Animals USA13. December 2019Bugs Work for Scientists to Make Car Oil and Protein Powder Out of Old Pizza
A new company in Davis, California in the United States is transforming the agriculture industry in a fight towards sustainability: they’re feeding food waste to insects to create green products such powder protein – or even car oil.
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Animals USA4. December 2019In the Cleaned-Up Potomac River, Dolphins Are Living, Mating – and Even Giving Birth
Five decades of pollution control and restoration efforts at the United States’ Potomac River is finally paying off: where dolphins had once long-disappeared, researchers are now cataloging well over a thousand of them in the lower reaches of the river.
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Animals USA19. November 2019Once Endangered Humpback Whales Enjoy Fast Rising Population Growth
The whaling industry led the population of South Atlantic humpback whales to drop to 450, facing near-extinction. But thanks to years of recovery efforts, a new study shows the whales have rebounded back to their pre-whaling population – of 25,000!
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Animals Russia14. November 2019Famous Russian “Whale Jail” is Finally Empty
Last year, four Russian companies illegally captured 97 beluga whales and orcas, locking them in what the media dubbed a “whale jail”. Now, this jail has finally been emptied, with all the sea mammals safely back in the wild.
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Animals USA9. November 2019You Hurt Animals – We Put You in Jail, U.S. Senate Says Unanimously
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT), which would make several kinds of animal cruelty a federal felony in the United States with a punishment of up to seven years in prison.
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