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 ...

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. In ...

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 ...

Modern sanitation systems have long treated human urine as waste, flushing away valuable nitrogen and phosphorus that are ...

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 ...

A war of words has erupted in Dubuque County over what one neighbor calls a very smelly fertilizer. The fertilizer is sewage sludge from the Waste Water Treatment Plant in Cedar Rapids, in other words ...

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.

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Veolia (Paris:VIE), the world’s leader in end-to-end hazardous waste solutions, announces a significant reinforcement of its hazardous waste treatment ...

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 ...

Residue from human waste has long wound up as farm fertilizer. Some neighbors hate it Opposition to the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer is growing across the country By JOSHUA A. BICKEL and SEAN ...