Ordinarily, resolutions are far too ambitious. I mean, isn't it pretty unreasonable to give up chocolate, especially the kind with hazelnuts in it? And if you buy an exercise bike, chances are, before long, it's going to end up as a place to hang your laundry when the dryer is broken, or it'll be posted on Craigslist.

So, why not …

Will you make room on your Christmas list—and in your heart—for an animal in need? PETA is looking for a few Secret Santas for a cold dog, an unsterilized cat, or an exhausted Indian bullock.

Your friends and relatives probably already have enough knickknacks and new gadgets to stretch from here to the top of Mount …

After nine grueling years, an elephant named Mariappan is finally free of the chains that bound him by all four legs so tightly that he could not take a single step in any direction. Mariappan was chained inside a filthy, dark shed at the Arulmigu Mariamman Temple in Samayapuram, …

Did you read Anna Sewell's wonderful book Black Beauty? My cousins had horses who were loved as much as my family's dogs, and I've always been fascinated by these huge companion animals. I cried during the early parts of the book, but I love that Black Beauty …

I was in India not long ago, visiting PETA's Indian affiliate, a trek that filled me with emotions ranging from desperation to hope. There is abuse everywhere you look, if you aren't on one of those tours for highly sheltered, rich tourists.

One moment we were screeching to a halt to stop boys from tormenting a …

Life is hard for animals working in India. In Maharashtra (a state in western India, Asia's largest producer of sugar), bullocks—and sometimes ponies—are forced to carry extremely heavy loads of cane from the fields to the mills, trudging up to 20 miles a day in the extreme heat, along rutted dirt roads, and often with the whole …