Vikki Senius-Krug

Please take a moment to express your sympathy, condolences, and support for the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, for the survivors and their families, and for the community of Newtown, Connecticut.

Student loan debt has topped $1 trillion -- more than the total amount of credit card debt in the U.S. The average amount of student loan debt for a graduating senior is currently $25,000. Nearly 8 million Americans use subsidized loans from the government to pay for their education. Doubling the

If we don’t take action now, rhinos could be extinct within the next decade. Every 14.6 hours a rhino is killed so that its horns can be used as bogus medicine. Rhino horns are in demand on the criminal black markets in Vietnam - per kilogram - worth more than diamonds and gold. Grinding dishes are

In the United States, 99% of food animals are raised in factory farms, an enterprise that produces a huge amount of waste and crowded conditions that are often filthy and inhumane. Such conditions can sometimes lead to sickness in both the animals and the people who the animals are intended to

Canada's annual seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. In 2010 the Canadian government allowed fishermen to club and shoot nearly 400,000 seals in the North Atlantic, almost all of them babies between one and three months old - just to earn a few extra bucks by selling