The goats had been kept in a flimsy wooden shelter that was no match and did little to keep the sharp claws and insatiable hunger of the predator at bay. "It was a painful lesson," he says ...

Thankfully, the town has since adapted the tradition and now uses a plastic goat. From the '50s through the '70s, people were ...

Inspired by cotton candy, four friends spent more than a decade designing a machine that turns locally sourced plastic waste into ... keep even the most basic shelters warm. More from World ...

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Baghpat: Most goats begin their day with cud-chewing, but the morning routine is much more ceremonious at the bakrashala in Baghpat’s Aminagar Sarai. At daybreak, the shelter workers file in ...

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Despite global concerns over the accumulation of plastic waste, the drive to produce new plastics shows no signs of slowing down. According to OECD data, the world’s annual plastic production ...

In some parts of Asia, such as India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, goat can be referred to as mutton. This is not to be confused with the English use of the word, meaning the meat of an adult sheep.

YEKATERINBURG, December 2. /TASS/. Deer, goats and a yak have given shelter to a female ostrich rejected by her fellow birds at the Tyumen zoo in western Siberia, the chief zookeeper told TASS on ...

Final negotiations for the first-ever United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are due to take place at the end of November. The latest treaty draft states two major objectives: to end plastic ...

Scientists have developed a "self-digesting plastic", which, they say, could help reduce pollution. Polyurethane is used in everything from phone cases to trainers, but is tricky to recycle and ...

For non-breastfed or breastfed-supplemented infants, the AAP is currently recommending formula with cow’s milk or goat’s milk base equally, followed by soy milk-base for infants with allergies ...