Red hot chilli preppers! Mounds of dried chillies turn fields red during harvest season at huge Chinese farm Aerial images show labourers harvesting crop in Kuqa, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, north-west China The peppers are harvested around August to October before being shipped to market once they have dried Drying chillies is a classic way … Read more
The amount of energy able to be harvested from ‘invisible light’ and used in solar cells has been given a significant boost thanks to a new technology. Scientists in Australia and the United States turned low energy light into heavy energy light able to be captured by solar cells using ‘oxygen’ as a key ingredient. … Read more
Waitrose BANS sale of coconut products made from fruit harvested by ‘slave’ monkeys Peta Asia found Thai farms training monkeys to pick up to 1,600 coconuts a day Pigtailed macaque have been made to carry loads higher than their bodyweight Ocado, Boots and the Co-op have stopped selling products using monkey labour By Joe Davies … Read more