Farmers raised 22,000 lambs for local meat markets last year, and Hoegh soon will host the chef of a renowned Copenhagen restaurant to persuade him to put Arctic lamb on the menu. It s good for me, said Ernst Lund, a lanky young man who is one of 51 farmers raising sheep on the southern tip of Greenland. He can feed his sheep better when he can grow more hay and keep them in the hills for a few more weeks. QAQORTOQ, Greenland The biggest island in the world is a wind-raked place, gripped...

When her mother Gypsy was adopted by the Lambs, she was a chubby miniature, and Jowana provided exercise faithfully to help with the weight problem. First birthdays are always special, and when you can share the birthday with upwards of 10,000 people, they are particularly special. She was so curious and learned so fast that it really tested my horsemanship skills, Lamb said. After owning regular horses for years, she discovered a love of minis quite by accident when she was asked to give...

Julian said the number of lamb and sheep losses to predators each year can be the difference between profit and loss for most operators in Wyoming. Over time, livestock operators in the state have been slowly switching from sheep to cattle, in part because predators take thousands more sheep than cattle. Spread out over nine herds, his approximately 10,000 sheep are slowly moving from winter ranges in northern Colorado to leases in southwest Wyoming. With attitudes toward predators...

It would be a bacterium called mycoplasma laboratorium which could then be programmed to convert sunlight into eco-friendly fuels such as hydrogen or ethanol. Craig Venter -- the scientist who led the private-sector race to map the human genome -- says his research team has figured out which genes provide the bare essentials for life. Venter says the main goal would be to produce hydrogen and ethanol which "could save an estimated $20 billion per year on fuel costs over the next 50 years...

Once trained, the skilled carpet weavers make authentic carpets based on traditional designs and made from wool sourced from sheep from the province of Ghazni. If you liked this article and would like to share it with others on the web who might be searching for good content we've made it easy for you to do it. All the money raised from the sale of the traditional carpets will go towards the running of Afghan Action, a charity which provides training in carpet weaving skills for young...