A growing number of homeowners are insulating their walls in order to lower energy costs. They opt for the cheap variety, polystyrene. Yet there are environmentally-friendly alternatives: Cattails, for instance, ...

Technology - Engineering

May 15, 2013 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

Hong Kong customs officers have seized 113 ivory tusks worth nearly $400,000 on the Chinese ivory market, officials said on Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

May 01, 2013 not rated yet 0

Activists warned Thursday that wild populations of Southeast Asia's striking Tokay Gecko were in danger of being over-hunted for use in traditional medicine in China and other countries.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 11, 2013 not rated yet 1

Swiss researchers could show that exhaled human breath contains a characteristic molecular "fingerprint". The scientists want to use this finding to diagnose diseases based on the chemical analysis of patient's exhaled breath, ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Apr 03, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

Scientists are reporting an advance toward overcoming a major barrier to tapping the potential of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and India's Ayurvedic medicine in developing new and more effective modern ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Mar 13, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 1 |

A phylogenetic study has shown that related plants are used traditionally in three disparate regions to treat similar medical conditions.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Two rare Malayan sun bears have been rescued in Cambodia after being discovered in an abandoned garment factory, a zoo official said Friday.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 22, 2013 not rated yet 0

Conservationists on Thursday called for sanctions against the world's top offender nations in the illegal ivory trade to tackle a surge in poaching of African elephants.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 21, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Activists Friday slammed a two-year jail term handed to a Malaysian man over the country's biggest seizure of illegally trafficked tiger parts as too short and a "demoralising finale" to the case.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 08, 2013 not rated yet 0

More than half of Gabon's elephant population has been killed by poachers since 2004 despite ramped up security measures to try to stop the slaughter, wildlife officials said Wednesday.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 3

A sanctuary for bears rescued from the Asian bile trade which has been at the centre of a high-profile land dispute has been spared eviction by Vietnam's government, its director said.

Biology - Ecology

Jan 16, 2013 not rated yet 0

In science's equivalent of ascending Mt. Everest, researchers are reporting success in one of the most difficult challenges in synthetic chemistry—a field in which scientists reproduce natural and other ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Dec 12, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 3

Malaysian customs have seized 24 tonnes of unprocessed elephant tusks worth almost $20 million, the largest haul in the country to date, officials said Tuesday.

Biology - Ecology

Dec 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

The regulation of important signal molecules that are critical for the formation of various cell types can be influenced by a chemically produced variant of indirubin, a natural material used in traditional Chinese medicine. ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 30, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The populations of four vulnerable bear species have fallen by at least 30 percent in the last 30 years due to rampant deforestation, mining and poaching, a conservation group said on Monday.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 26, 2012 4.5 / 5 (2) 0