As a permaculturist student of regenerative agriculture and holistic nutrition, who also has considerable N-of-1 experience with pesticide sensitivities, I feel confident in surmising that investing ...

A brain-invading worm spread by rats and snails is making inroads into the United States. A study this week seems to show the ...

Texas scientists test using fungi and earthworms to turn toxic, abrasive moon dirt into soil capable of growing crops.

The transplant of older poop actually seemed to boost the health of their ovaries. Consistently, young mice that received ...

A neurological disease spread by rats and other animals may have become established in San Diego County.

New research is shaking up our understanding of evolution by revealing that some species may not evolve gradually at all. Instead, scientists discovered that certain marine worms experienced an ...

Los Angeles Department of Transportation has been forced to scrap a video campaign begging passengers not to poop on city buses. Officials pulled the six clips from YouTube and its website, claiming ...

Ready to give up backyard composting because it's too difficult? It may surprise you to learn that prolific (and kind-of-cute ...

The city is currently a dog-shit nightmare. There’s no other way to say it. Dog owners seem to have taken January’s snowstorm as carte blanche to violate an already tenuous social contract: They have ...

The complaints are piling up. A putrid sidewalk so blanketed with poop that it’s barely passable has become a symbol of the Big Apple’s winter crap crisis — as complaints over dog waste reach record ...

Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

If you’re a gardener and you’ve found composting difficult or frustrating, you’re not alone. LAist science reporter Jacob ...