Crimes like this are the reason why the country of Denmark has been teaching empathy in school since 1993. [1] Children need to be taught to feel, to empathize, and to understand at that impressionable age the difference between good and evil. In June 2020, a mother swan in Bolton, Manchester was reported to have...
Italy has approved an amendment to a budget law that will close the ten mink farms in the country and ban any future fur farming. This decision came after discussions with the Humane Society International who have petitioned for closing fur farms and turning the land into human and sustainable businesses. Since this amendment has...
Blue butterflies are a rare sight to behold in Nature. One reason is that naturally blue occurs extremely rare. The Blue Morpho butterflies are one of the very few naturally occurring living beings that have the color blue. However, photographer Kelvin Hudson lucked out when he chanced upon a fairytale-like scene. If he did not...
A Premiere Daily Highlight Story: Sometimes there are tales that are just too good, too beautiful, or too miraculous to keep locked away. That’s why we scour the archives and bring some of them back to enjoy again. They may amaze you, make you smile or even shed a tear, but they’re always meant to add...
How would you react if you heard a comet will collide with Earth? In the new film Don’t Look Up, the answer was denial and apathy. Quite a change of pace from the panicked and despairing tone of most disaster films. However, it captures the current climate where every issue is politicized and hard facts...
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently took a rare video of the strange and uncanny barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma). The deeper the ocean, the weirder the fish become and the barreleye fish is no exception. This odd creature has a transparent head surrounding its bulbous eyes. MBARI used two remotely operated vehicles (ROV)...
Nature’s beauty rarely fails to astound– and sometimes, it gives us something so stunning, it almost doesn’t look real. That’s exactly what happened in 2015 when photographer Jonathan Nimerfroh took pictures of one such phenomenon, these nearly frozen slurpee waves. Nmerfroh, however, had a case of lightning striking twice, as he managed to recapture them...
For those who don’t know, some places of Africa still allow hunters to kill rare wild animals to collect as trophies – an act known as trophy hunting. The United Kingdom is preparing to pass a bill that will make this vile act lose some of its purposes – showcasing the “trophies”. The law will...
The Amazon river dolphin is the largest freshwater dolphin in the world. They grow up to nine feet long and weigh up to 450 pounds. Also, these freshwater dolphins are bright pink. Just imagine sailing down the Amazon river surrounded by miles of rainforest canopies, spotting pink dolphins hunting beneath the surface. Amazon river dolphins,...
Rusty Kemp is one of the many ranchers who complained about the poor prices for their cattle. Even as prices of meat at grocery stores increase, the ranchers see no higher profits. Kemp and his Nebrakan neighbors blame the consolation in the beef industry where four companies have slaughtered over 80% of cattle in the...
Some farmers harvest energy in addition to their crops. Take Fabian Karthaus, for example. His father built a photovoltaic system (solar panels) on the roof of their barn when Karthaus was a child. At the age of 33, the farmer keeps two large solar power systems in his field. Berry crops grow underneath one of...
Long before Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin became household names, there was another Tiger King in town- or “Tiger Man”, as they called him. In 2001, Antoine Yates became known as New York City’s Tiger Man, when he was found to be keeping a 425-pound tiger in his Harlem apartment. Ming the Tiger Mr. Yates...
