Vermicomposting turns kitchen scraps into rich, crumbly compost with the help of hungry worms doing the heavy lifting. The ...

California is employing worms and microbes to transform livestock manure into valuable fertilizer. This natural process ...

Which plants like peat-based compost, and which flourish more with manure? Get the dirt on this nutrient-rich soil additive.

These natural materials form a biofilter that may dramatically cut the methane, nitrous oxide, and water pollution generated ...

Stocked in the 1940s to supplement walleye and pike, smallmouth bass quietly took over the Minnesota–Ontario Boundary Waters.

The poop-gravity relationship goes way deep. OR The unassuming lugworm releases gravity-defying poop—something that represents a broader theme in the shape of all poop.

Ask a child to draw some poo, and the shape will invariably be the same: a coil, broad at the base and pointy at the top, similar to a spiral swirl of soft-serve ice cream. In fact, the often-used poo ...

Globally, humanity now produces a staggering 450 million tonnes of plastic every year. From food and drink containers to cosmetics packaging, sewage pipes, window frames and polyester clothing, we use ...

(NEXSTAR) – After decades of eradication, the New World screwworm is back in the United States. Cases of the flesh-eating parasite have been confirmed in Texas and New Mexico, and officials fear its ...