Spanish scientists led by Professor Jesús Ruiz Fernández of the University of Oviedo have found traces of human waste, including plastic bottles, drums, flip-flops, and other objects ...

Internal testing by the Environment Agency has provided insight into pollution at two sites that were the first to be ...

The colossal growth of urban centres across the globe is associated with a whole host of social and environmental problems, not least of which is the intensive outpouring of human waste.

When it comes to renewable energy, solar panels, wind turbines, and hydropower keep coming up as number 1, but what about number 2? Literally. I’m talking about ... well, poop. There’s a rich, ...

Studies have demonstrated conclusively that burning trash carries significant adverse environmental consequences, especially for people living nearby.

Human waste streams don't create PFAS. The compounds flow into treatment plants through the products we use and ingest or from upstream sources like industrial manufacturers or stormwater flows.

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.

"Human food waste is driving high fox populations in the New Forest, putting pressure on threatened bird species, a new study ...

Municipal waste is incredibly diverse, from plastics to paper to food scraps ... Therapeutic proteins: the engineered bacteria successfully produced human insulin analogues used for treating diabetes, ...

North Koreans have been reduced to stealing each others' feces after Kim Jong Un demanded an impossibly high quota of human waste from his people to use as fertilizer. The Kim regime forces ...

“It smells somewhere between dead fish, spoiled milk and human waste,” one frustrated resident put it to PennLive this spring. “And when it’s there, it’s there.” But, as organic ...