Wesley J. Smith is a speciesist. And he thinks you should be, too.

In his January 11 address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See, Pope Benedict XVI continued to carve out an interesting Catholic position on ecology.

Benedict XVI says efforts to protect the environment cannot be opposed to human life and safeguarding the dignity of the person.

There is no nihilism like the nihilism of a 9-year-old.

Genetically modified food offers hope for the worlds malnourished.

Nature likes to shock us, occasionally, and make us think.

In reaction to the March 29 maritime deaths of four seal hunters, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society chief, declared the deaths of seals a "greater tragedy."

I have a friend in Quebec who wrote to Canadas top environmental guru, David Suzuki, asking him to consider how the moral environment impacts on the material environment, a point that is missing from Suzukis voluminous statements about the environment.

In his new book Apollos Arrow, ambitiously subtitled The Science of Prediction and the Future of Everything, Vancouver-based author and mathematician David Orrell set out to explain why the mathematical models scientists use to predict the weather, the climate and the economy are not getting any better, just more refined in their uncertainty.

The consensus among the monotheistic religions has been that animals exist for our purposes and that we are entitled to use them, domesticate them and eat them, subject only to God's inscrutable dietary laws.