Leaf vegetables

As of last Friday, December 1, the zero VAT rate on meat and vegetables, categorized under specific customs tariff codes, has come into effect in Cyprus. The measure, outlined in a Council of Ministers decree dated November 17, applies to various meat and vegetable products, promoting accessibility to essential food items.

Sneakers made from banana or pineapple leaves, dresses from nettles or fish scales, the search for sustainable materials has taken the fashion industry to some wild places.

Experts warn these new textiles are not a quick fix for fashion's enormous problems with over-consumption and waste, but may be a necessary step in developing cleaner technologies.

The knowledge students acquire in the field of mechatronics at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Cacak is applicable in the industrial automation, but also in everyday life, and could replace hundreds of workers with incredible effect.

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) has issued a recall for a spinach product on suspicion that it might be mixed with jimsonweed leaves, BFSA press office said, quoted by Focus News Agency. 

An expert has warned that sea lettuces and green algae that occurred in the sea off the western Turkish province of İzmir may poison passersby if authorities fail to take measures. Click through for the story in photos...

Spring is all about greens. Foraging for edible wild greens seems like a new trend but in rural Anatolia it has been a strong tradition for ages, more precisely since the hunter-gatherers of the Paleolithic Karain Cave just north of the Mediterranean city of Antalya. This means about 200,000 years of foraging heritage, though Anatolian foliage must have changed drastically since then.

Very few people who have seen the busy streets of Alaçat?, the popular tourist resort in the Aegean province of ?zmir, can imagine what the small town looked like some 20 years ago - a sleepy village with a small butcher and a weekly green market in the main square.

For the first time ever, a flower is blooming in space on the International Space Station.

U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted a photo of one of the orange flowers, Zinnians, writing: “First ever flower grown in space makes its debut! #SpaceFlower #zinnia #YearInSpace”.

Peru was like my promised land. I never had a chance to visit the country, but Peruvian culture has always been close to my heart. Since my high school years, it was on my top destination list, maybe just because of a dreamy picture of Machu Picchu. When I was studying conservation in Rome, my course coordinator was from Peru and the best cook in our international group was a friend from Peru.

Astronauts living at the International Space Station took their first bites of space-grown lettuce on August 10, in what scientists described as another step toward enabling human missions to Mars.