Off-gassing is the particularly sexy name for the process through which the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) used in the manufacture of many household items are released into the air that you ...

The government is exploring the possibility of gassing badgers to cull carriers of bovine TB, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has told MPs. A six week trial of badger culling in Somerset has ...

Off-gassing isn’t unique to mattresses. New furniture, carpeting, and building materials can also release VOCs. But the vacuum-sealed nature of today’s mattresses (and couches and pillows ...

My anti-gassing — and anti-death penalty — rhetoric has often relied on insights from great American writers such as Harper Lee and James Baldwin, philosophers like Henry David Thoreau and ...

Sky's Isabel Webster learned that unofficial trials of gassing using a hosepipe and vehicle engines have been carried out on 14 farms in the south west of England. A farmer, who wanted to remain ...

I asked Rhoads how long off-gassing lasts. “The off-gassing can last for the life of the product, but the rate of off-gassing will decrease. It will also depend on the product.

Defra has confirmed it is testing gassing as a method of culling badgers, although no animals have been involved in the trials. A Freedom of Information request has shown tests using carbon ...