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 ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...