The world is hooked on plastics, but creating plastics — especially thermoplastics like nylon, polyethylene, and polystyrene — typically requires petroleum or natural gas. That’s bad, because it ...

With back-to-school season in full swing, I keep getting lost in the aisles of school supplies. Then again, who am I kidding? I'm pretty sure I do that on any old day. Whenever I open up a new pack of ...

Indigenous Pueblo populations in the American Southwest—ancestors of today's Hopi, Zuni, and Rio Grande Pueblo tribes—typically wove blankets, cloaks, and funeral wrappings out of animal hides, furs, ...

Kamehameha Schools student Nicholas Lum, at far left, poses with a feather cape he made by hand. The cape is made up of five feather bundles stitched to a backing. As he completed the cape, Lum said, ...

Feather earrings are the perfect accessory for the hot weather. They can easily compliment a comfy sundress or make a sleek party dress look exotic. If these are the looks you are looking for this ...

PIERRE, S.D. | Pierre artist Sondra Brown-Adams was always crafty. It was almost two decades ago when a friend first taught her how to make flowers out of pheasant feathers. But when her daughter ...