Japan | Basking in the runway spotlight at a Tokyo fashion show, next to the 5 million yen (US$50,000) Russian sable coat is a cape of lowly polyester sewn with chinchilla that's being billed as "ecol ...

France | After much research, an Albertville-based company has discovered a way of recycling used ski gear. Thousands of tonnes of used skis, snowboards, ski boots, poles, helmets and sledges are thro ...

Germany | A German funeral director is under investigation for fraud after allegedly switching corpses into cheap board-based boxes prior to cremation.

In Germany, bodies are normally cremated ...

Israel | From the top of the reeking Hiriya landfill one can spot the Tel Aviv hospital where former Israeli leader Ariel Sharon lies crippled by a devastating stroke. Recently, Prime Minister Ehud Ol ...

Japan | For more than 20 years, Japan's popular public artist Mikuo Konoki has been transforming industrial scrap steel and other metal debris into sculptures that address issues of life and death: Th ...

Japan | Japan will attempt to turn millions of wooden chopsticks discarded each year into biofuel to ease the country’s energy shortage.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries i ...

United States | The 7th annual ‘Art of Recycling’ metal sculpture competition and public art display took place as part of the 2007 Minneapolis Aquatennial celebration in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U ...

A Chinese animal centre is making sure nothing goes to waste with its proposal to turn panda dung into paper.

Liao Jun, a researcher at Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base, says the idea came to ...

She has designed throw-away clothes, dishes and textiles out of paper. Now Finland’s Tuija Asta Järvenpää has found a new market: disposable wedding dresses. Prototypes have been made out of shin ...