While elephant poachers are only interested in the animals’ tusks, for Kenyan entrepreneur John Matano it is all about what comes out of the other end of the world’s largest land mammal. This is ...

On the Greek island of Crete, goats spend their summer days idly snacking on dry grass. Then they poop it out, leading to epiphanies for materials engineers like Dr. Alexander Bismarck of the ...

CAP offers the facts when its comes to America's secret love affair with paper, along with ways to cut down on its use. "Think of the hundreds of times a day we touch paper — newspapers, cereal boxes, ...

Scientists may have found a way to generate environmentally friendly paper from poop—cow and elephant poop that is. Although this may seem strange and unconventional, this poo-per actually offers a ...

Overcoming hurdles, a group of differently challenged persons inMunnar are generating revenue making eco-friendly papers using elephant dung, which is finding good demand, especially among foreign ...

JAIPUR/DELHI -- The elephant ride up the stone pathway of the medieval Amber fort outside Jaipur is designed to make tourists feel like Rajput warriors returning from battle—-or something on those ...

A Swiss-based origami artist’s elephant wants to travel the world. But the doors of its current home are too narrow. However, that has not stopped the world from going agog over this paper elephant ...

Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary chairperson Salim Mwanyongwe is a happy man. The reserve he helps run is increasingly being recognised as a conservation success story. And so is one of the ecotourism ...

An elephant can defecate 16 times in one day—and its 200 pounds of dung can double as paper pulp.Grown-up elephants can eat more than 300 pounds of food—mostly grass, twigs, foliage, and tree bark—in ...

Artist Sipho Mabona has taken origami to the next level by creating a life-sized paper elephant! The oversized animal was folded from one single, albeit giant, piece of paper. Mabona raised the ...