You may be pleasantly surprised to learn that many bathroom items can also be composted, particularly those that qualify as ...

But what if human remains could be as nonthreatening as a nice bag of garden soil or a peaceful woodland hike? It might not ...

Composting toilets are a great idea, but no one likes to think of the waste just sitting there and slowly … fermenting. A new ...

Some degree of failure is inevitable. However, people respond differently to their own failure. Do any of these three styles of response to failure sound like you? The Impunitive Style When faced with ...

Ever since moving to the top of this mountain, the toilet situation has been quite a challenge. The first year involved traditional methods of using a shovel and dealing with wild boar. In the second ...

In the past 30 years, Davenport has turned 3 million cubic yards of treated sewage sludge and yard waste into useable compost ...

The compost facility in Davenport is marking 30 years of operation, recycling yard waste and biosolids into compost, soil and ...

The Chicago Cubs are playoff bound, as they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to clinch their first postseason berth in five seasons. The Cubs now have 88 wins on the season, and though their playoff ...

A 95-year-old woman was arrested and charged with murder after using part of a wheelchair to bludgeon a fellow resident at a Brooklyn senior housing facility to death, police said. In addition to ...

Delphine Farmer receives funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Department of Energy, and the W.M. Keck ...

that received an order for 150 packets of briyani. The person who made the order did not collect it on Sept 9 as arranged, and initially the incident was thought to be a prank. Since then, there have ...

New Jersey has become the latest state to allow human composting after death — a concept pitched as an environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation that involves turning loved ones into ...