Dirk Wurst (not his real name), his bushy red Afro (not his real hair) bouncing in the wind, wearing his trademark pink coveralls (that'll confuse 'em), is heading out to his front yard on his ...

The gleaming white commode, a mainstay of modern civilization, is not something most folks question. But anyone who does stop to ponder why we flush our feces and urine into nearby streams and rivers ...

One of the most remarkable agricultural practices adopted by any civilized people is the centuries-long and well nigh universal conservation and utilization of all human waste in China, Korea and ...

But there's a crucial difference between humanure and modern sludge, known in the sewage industry as "biosolids." Humanure is made from pure human excrement. It can still contain residues from ...

An Oklahoma farmer and a state lawmaker are raising concerns and asserting it's harmful to people, animals and the environment. Two different bills on the matter didn't get a committee hearing in time ...

"I wake up at 5:30 in the morning to go to the fields to relieve myself." This call of (and deposit in) nature was something Anoop Jain heard about over and again while doing community health surveys ...

Part 3 of Grist’s special series on poop. Laura Allen, a 33-year-old teacher from Oakland, California, has a famous toilet. To be honest, it’s actually a box, covered in decorative ceramic tiles, ...

Poop is a sensitive issue in Durango, where scientific studies recently proved that too much human feces is flowing into the Animas River downstream to Farmington. The Durango City Council is ...