Overview: An ancient spiritual practice, fasting can range from rejecting food and water to giving up a favorite TV show during the 40 days of Lent. Along with prayer and reading of Scripture, the ...

Pot en Ciel Kreol is an artisanal cannery based on France's Réunion Island. Combining local agriculture with the ancient technique of lacto-fermentation, the company aims to preserve the island's ...

For decades, scientists have been learning more about the diets of early hominins, particularly their reliance on plants. Yet we still don't know when these ancestors of humans started eating ...

Not knowing exactly when regular meat consumption became part of our ancestors’ diets is a gap in our understanding of human ...

Urine was used as fertiliser in ancient Rome and China. Now farmers in Vermont are bringing this practice back to boost ...

Hyaenodonts were the main meat-eating mammal at the time across what is now Africa and Arabia ... So the team took inspiration from Bastet, the ancient leonine Egyptian goddess of pleasure ...

In both ancient and modern contexts ... But this method is still underutilised in Africa. It has only recently been taken up and very few visibility studies have been conducted on the continent.

A leopard-sized mammal sat atop its food chain 30 million years ago ... Hyaenodonts became apex predators in ecosystems throughout North Africa and the Middle East, Europe, Asia and North America.

Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and ... four UNESCO World Heritage sites in Mauritania, a West African nation where only 0.5 per cent of land is considered ...