If you have a USB microscope and projector, you can also investigate the fibres in a cotton ball and watch what happens when you add a drop of coloured water and a drop of soapy coloured water (if you ...

Cotton production is a vital component of the global agricultural economy, underpinning the textile industry and rural livelihoods. Recent advances have focused on optimising both yield and fibre ...

Engineered by Nature" at Sourcing Journal's LA Sustainability Summit, Yvonne Johnson, senior director of product development ...

An international collaboration of researchers has figured out how to make a longer cotton fiber —- information that one biologist believes could potentially have a multi-billion-dollar impact on the ...

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the fashion industry is becoming more sustainable, but the opposite is true. The media is awash with ‘sustainable’ materials and rental and resale options, but how ...

A field of a genetically modified variety of cotton called Bt Cotton with inbuilt insecticide resistance, in India. Cotton's environmental impacts are well-publicized (if not well-understood), ...

67% of respondents rated cotton clothing as the most comfortable. Credit: Tarzhanova/Shutterstock.com. The 2025 Global Lifestyle Monitor Survey encompass responses from 13,026 consumers across 13 ...

Cotton, as a model polyploid crop, has long been at the forefront of agricultural genetics research owing to its economic importance and complex genomic architecture. Advances in high‐throughput ...

The NCC, proposed by the Union Ministry of Textiles, will engage in monitoring, coordinating and creating a unified platform for development of the cotton fibre. The institution could provide funding ...

ISLAMABAD, July 26: The Central Board of Revenue has revised rates of duty drawback on export of viscose fibre and cotton fibre made products. The new rates will be applicable from July 26, 2004 , ...

If you have a USB microscope and projector, you can also investigate the fibres in a cotton ball and watch what happens when you add a drop of coloured water and a drop of soapy coloured water (if you ...