Estonian designer Reet Aus has spent more than a decade turning factory waste into new garments.

January brings sticker shock on your credit cards, and maybe that bathroom scale, from all that holiday splurging on gifts and entertainment, nice meals and parties, now that we can go out again after ...

In the 1940s, mother of three Valerie Hunter-Gordon from England was fed up with washing cloth nappies.She then used cotton wool and old parachutes to design the world's first disposable nappy.The ...

Food waste and food security are intertwined. As climate change, the pandemic, and global insecurity destabilize supplies of agricultural staples like wheat and rice, it’s no surprise concerns about ...

As pollution continues to strain Bali’s environment, organisations are exposing limits of clean-ups. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Each year, Canada generates roughly $58 billion in avoidable food waste, much of which is from spoilage that goes undetected ...

In “Our Mutual Friend”, Charles Dickens’s last complete novel, stray paper “hangs on every bush, flutters in every tree, is caught flying by the electric wires, haunts every enclosure”. Since those ...

One bad apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but when it comes to distributing food, a lot of good goes out with the bad. Now, researchers from Princeton University and Microsoft Research have ...

There’s one thing every planned permanent repository for spent nuclear fuel has in common: They’re all underground mines. Like any mine, a mined repository for nuclear waste is a complex feat of ...

Tucked away on the kitchen countertop sits a bubbling, living goop in a jar. Each day, a mixture of flour and water feeds the beige concoction, commencing a ritualistic dance that summons wild yeast ...