This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientist Melissa Miller was seeing something in California sea otters that she had not seen before: an unusually severe form of toxoplasmosis, which officials have confirmed has killed at least four of the animals. “We wanted to get the word […]
Read MoreAnd tree waste isn’t the only unwanted product that can be used to make this compost. Cities could also nourish their trees with a little assistance from their human residents: by recycling their poop. A growing number of wastewater treatment plants are devising ways to produce safe soil amendments based on recycled biosolids—the feces and […]
Read MoreThis might seem like a weird headline but it’s actually the result of a long collaborative effort between Samsung and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Samsung announced today that it has completed a project started in collaboration with the foundation in response to the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge. Samsung’s answer to the challenge is […]
Read MoreThe thought of transplanting another person’s poop into your colon may sound unpleasant, and understandably so. Feces are a smelly mixture of water, undigested food, dead and living bacteria, and other cells and substances. However, the live bacteria in feces have proven their worth in treating diseases and ailments of the digestive tract. This is […]
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