One artifact in the collection of the Fenton History Center brings us back to a winter time activity of many years ago. The artifact is a bark peeler. So what is a bark peeler and how and why does it ...

Correction appended: Nov. 13, 2013, 10:20 p.m. E.T. Inside the factory, shirtless workers stretch freshly dyed sheets of goat leather across industrial drying racks. Sleek and durable, the leather is ...

SAVAR, Bangladesh -- Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new industrial complex more than a year after the ...

In 1998, The Independent, the British daily, reported that the overwhelming majority of Dhaka tanneries, “did not have any treatment plant” for several dangerous pollutants used to process animal hide ...

On May 19 there’s a rare chance for accountability for the massive health problems caused by Bangladesh’s toxic leather tanneries. The country’s High Court has summonsed the secretary of the Ministry ...

For probably the first time, Bangladesh’s government has leveled pollution-related fines against two leather tanneries in Hazaribagh, a Dhaka neighborhood so polluted with waste from its roughly 150 ...

SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new industrial complex more than a year after the ...

Gloversville — Talk to almost anyone who grew up around the tanneries in Gloversville and they’ll tell you about how they gagged on the smell of the fumes as they walked to school. That the fumes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yet organizers were able to transfer the showcase of Italian tanneries by setting up a platform filled with webinars and digital ...

The tanneries started functioning normally from Thursday onwards.The leather units had been temporarily closed on the orders of the high court in view of Mahakumbh. The decision brought relief for ...

Anant Shekhar Misra.Last week, UPPCB allowed 28 tanneries to start operations. <p>The news of reopening of tanneries has generated hope among workers in Jajmau area where many tanneries are closed ...