Pharmaceutical products are essential for health, and they play and will continue to play a key role in disease prevention ...

Biochar might sound like a fine dining special, but it's actually a promising solution to help farmers meet their fertilizer needs. The substance, a stable form of carbon similar to charcoal, is made ...

WELLSTON, Okla. (AP) — When Leslie Stewart moved to her home in a rural expanse of Lincoln County outside of Oklahoma City more than 20 years ago, she thought she’d found a slice of heaven. In a town ...

Feb. 14—Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there’s a major blind spot when it comes to potential contaminants.

This story was originally published by Investigate Midwest. The cool morning spring breeze hit Saundra Traywick “like a punch to the face.” Walking through her wooded 38-acre donkey farm in central ...

Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions. A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of ...

Safe, nutrient-rich and syariah-approved, biosolid fertiliser is boosting yields and slowly changing perceptions.

Washington is one step closer to eliminating a major blind spot for potential contaminants in crops grown across the state using human waste as fertilizer. Lawmakers voted unanimously last week to ...

Sewage pollution in the Thames has been a problem for centuries. A new art installation at Science Gallery London explores the history, engineering, geography and science of human waste in the river.

Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...