Despite its controversies, furs and fur-like materials are making their way down the runways.

Spun from plant-based fibers and priced under $500, they’re the most accessible, sustainable, and mood-enhancing faux furs you’ll find this winter.

When you were trying to figure out what to buy for the environmentalist on your holiday list, fur probably didn't cross your mind. Some ecologists and fashion enthusiasts are trying to rekindle a ...

Among the new-generation alternatives to fossil-fuel-made fur and real animal skin is Savian, a 100% plant-based fur made from nettle, flax and hemp sourced from Europe and produced in Italy.

As vintage fur gets a second look, high demand could lead to Americans reassessing their opposition to trapping - the practice that produces these sought-after fur pelts.

These plants can kill your pets Perhaps the most deadly plant you may already have in your yard is the Sago palm/Cycas revoluta. It is toxic to humans and pets. Oddly enough, the Sago, despite its ...

The fur-rubbing white-faced capuchins and the charcoal-eating red colobus monkeys seen in Clever Monkeys are just two examples of medical ingenuity in primates.

She stole the show by draping herself in icy blue fur—a look pulled straight from Christian Lacroix’s Fall/Winter 2002 couture collection. Part wrap dress, part shawl, the unique garment ...

Putting loose fur at the base of your plants can protect against smaller critters, like slugs. And fur can be buried to provide extra nutrients to the soil and surrounding plants.

Plastic-free fake fur made from nettle, hemp and flax fibres envelops these special edition bags that Danish fashion brand Ganni has unveiled as part of an exhibition at Copenhagen Fashion Week.

The exceptional excavation of a Stone Age burial site was carried out in Majoonsuo in the municipality of Outokumpu in eastern Finland. The excavation produced microscopically small fragments of bird ...

Paleoindians at Wyoming's LaPrele mammoth site made needles from the bones of fur-bearers, likely to creat garments from the animals' furs to keep warm in a cool climate.