At five dollars, it is the kind of low-stakes purchase that feels almost suspiciously affordable. You are not committing to a giant cat tree that takes over your living room. You are not building a ...

I call him Dexter, though I’m not at all certain that Dexter is a “he.” It’s tough to tell the sex of a feral cat when five ...

Nearly 80 feral cats and countless dogs rely on Ilona Gersun every day. Facing mounting costs and deteriorating kennels, she’s asking the community to help protect the animals who have no one else.

I'm writing in the worst part of a blizzard. What a satisfying, heroic way to start a newspaper column. I'm not kidding, either. Here in Tiverton, Rhode Island, on the shores of Narragansett Bay, ...

Hybrid wild boar pigs from Canada are moving south, threatening U.S. farms with crop destruction and dangerous disease spread.

In 1921, Alexander Meiklejohn, then president of Amherst College, understood the importance of speaking on moral and political issues. He spoke out forcefully during a raging national controversy – ...

UNTIL this week, I’d never heard of Bridget Phillipson, who it turns out is two things: The Secretary of State for Education. And very annoying. It seems she joined the Labour Party when she was ...

One of the greatest performances of the past year has been Sean Penn’s mesmerising turn in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ...

I knew we’d given the Kiwis possums and lorikeets, but didn’t have a clue about our generosity in giving them wallabies and magpies.

Ward Michael Falor – known to nearly everyone as Mike or D.H. Falor – lived a life powered by curiosity, creativity, engines, music, animals and caring compassion. From the time he was a little boy, ...