Compassion in Action

Beachgoers rushed to save a young boy from drowning off the coast of Napier, New Zealand, yesterday, forming a human chain that helped pull the struggling lad back to shore.

Pet food stamps are available today for any low income family that cannot afford to feed their pets. This looks like the sign of the times, as most families can

While out working on a story in freezing New Jersey, a reporter and camera crew from New York station WABC-TV noticed a dog left out in the cold.

This place is about transformation. The students learn that if you can transform this environment, you can transform your life, yourself.

A 12 year-old boy named Larry did something that he realized probably hurt his seventh-grade teacher. Over the decades he searched the internet in an attempt to locate that teacher -- and apologize. His efforts were in vain ...

Recently, a newly formed Japanese grassroots group marched in protest against its country's whaling policies. It was the first open resistance from within Japan itself.

I used to think I was a pretty dope kid because I wrote a series of dope-ass short stories about a girl who suddenly woke up as a millionaire and had to spend it all.* Well, I was wrong, and you're wrong about how special and great you were,...

On December 18, the Dutch senate passed a historic ban on mink farming in the Netherlands, which is currently the third-largest producer of fur in the world after Denmark and China.

Xena was abused and starved to the point of death, but she miraculously survived. Then, she changed the life of a little boy with autism... basically, she is Xena the warrior and hero. :)

A 10-year-old boy is receiving great praise for saving an abused cat from being tortured by three young boys.

RIchard Turere from Kenya saw lions killing his father's cattle, but noticed they were scared of moving lights and invented blinking Lion Lights to deter them.

When a guy named Trevor Maltby left his car at the Cairns International Airport in Australia to go on a six-day business trip, he returned to find a small bird perched on top of a tiny nest on the windshield wiper blade of his Audi hatchback.

Warning: this article contains graphic images that may be disturbing to some readers.  He had never seen a dog so emaciated and still alive in his life.

Instead of merely learning about an aspect or two of sperm whale behavior in the wild, researchers got an unprecedented peek into one pod's gracious spirit.

After finishing high school in New Jersey, Maggie Doyne took a gap year during which she did service projects and cultural programs in South Asia. In India, she met a teenage refugee who had escaped Nepal seven years earlier.

John Unger just wanted a friend to take a nice photo of him and his 19-year-old arthritic dog, Schoep, before it was too late. He got that photo -- and world validation, too.

Justice was handed down in the case of a man who threw a pet bunny into a river forcing a homeless man to jump in to save a life.

Examination of skeletons from past millennia reveals that, at least in some cases, prehistoric humans cared for the sick and with disabilities.

In the sleepy little town of Black Mountain, North Carolina stands a bastion of hope, a last resort for many lives. Those lives are the lives of wolfdogs, and their saving grace is Full Moon Farm.