Water quality advocates in the state say manure management plans do not sufficiently regulate the manure produced in Iowa.

Waste products like coffee grounds and eggshells are widely used to improve soil health, but there are some more ...

A climate strategy backed by Gavin Newsom is funding biodigesters that can turn manure into fuel. Local communities say there ...

Earthworms could become unexpected allies in the global fight against antibiotic resistance, by helping farmers turn manure into safer, high-value organic fertilizer through a process called ...

WILLIS, Texas – Archie the missing emu in Willis has been found. His owner says she got a call this evening after we featured Archie on the news. The emu was scared off after a neighbor’s dog got into ...

DEAR JOAN: I am in love with the Liberty Mutual emu. Is it entirely computer-generated, so there is no hope? I know this is a silly question that you probably can’t answer. DEAR JULIE: I do believe ...

Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying information. The Australian marsupial communicates by … there's no delicate ...

A field with hog manure recently spread and incorporated into topsoil. Near Polk City, Iowa. (Anika Jane Beamer/Inside Climate News) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using ...

Poo anxiety, bashful bowels, shy bowel syndrome: they’re all terms for what’s medically known as parcopresis or difficulty pooping when you’re not at home. The Germans have given a name to this ...

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Sentient Media. More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a ...

You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool ...

A companion bill to the Fertilizer Research Act has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The House version, sponsored by U.S. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA), echoes the same goal ...