More than one-third of all animals on Earth, from beetles to cows to elephants, depend on plant-based diets. Plants are a low-calorie food source, so it can be challenging for animals to consume ...

DEAR DR. FOX: My wife and I appreciate your columns and their frequent references to climate change. We now have snow in northern Florida, but this does not meet the satisfaction of the climate change ...

Even as autumn days grow shorter, a warming climate means Ohio winters aren't as cold as they were just a few decades ago, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data. This ...

MAKOKO, Nigeria — Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Riding on the vessels are giant cardboard ...

The survival of more than 3,500 animal species is in jeopardy thanks to the impacts of climate change, a new study has found. This threat applies to at least a quarter of the species in six different ...

The world’s oldest animal welfare charity, Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), is under fire from non-human rights activists Animal Rising. A food-labelling ...

A female elephant seal rests with its seal pup at Ano Nuevo State Park in Pescadero, Calif., in 2022. Credit: Jessica Christian/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The Bigmouth buffalo isn’t ...

A French animal shelter is working to protect all the creatures it can amid raging wildfires that are killing off wildlife ...

This year is not a particularly white Christmas. Across the United States, families are gathering to enjoy a walk on a warm, sunny day. The fingerprints of climate change are all over the 2025 holiday ...

In the face of escalating climate challenges, the livestock industry is the focus of heated discussions, blamed for considerable greenhouse gas emissions and environmental decline. Yet, the livestock ...

Climate change is melting away glaciers around the world, but in the Andes Mountains, a wild relative of the llama is helping local ecosystems adapt to these changes by dropping big piles of dung.

In the face of climate change, pastoral and agropastoral communities in eastern Ethiopia remain at the receiving end of worsening droughts and climate shocks that have taken a toll on animal rearing ...