KOCHI: More rubber growers are making a beeline for beekeeping in estates in Kerala as rubber prices continue to be at rock-bottom levels. Rubber tree is an excellent source of honey during January to April, the time when leaves are formed and ...

Plastic surgery made Andressa Urach famous. But it also nearly killed the Brazilian "Miss Bum Bum" runner-up. Once nicknamed "Beanpole" for her lack of curves, the mother-of-one became a reality TV bombshell in Brazil with the help of silicone implants ...

Plastic can be fantastic – with the launch of two new innovative plastic rope blocks, are the days of metallic moving parts numbered in deck hardware? New lightweight INO plastic rope blocks. French sailors have always been the innovative, daring types.

In this July 28, 2014 photo provided by Rachel Ricotta are microfibers, exceedingly fine plastic fibers, that were taken from inside the body of a Great Lakes fish. Scientists who have reported that the Great Lakes are awash in tiny bits of plastic are ...

The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene. ONE million years from now, geologists exploring our planet's concrete-coated crust will ...