In the wee hours of the morning in a lab in Amherst, Massachusetts, geoscience graduate student Rob D’Anjou sat looking over test results, a pot of coffee nearby. He’d been pulling long days to ...

An estimated 1,650 hikers poop each year on Colorado’s tallest and busiest 14er. And because what those hikers do with their waste can have widespread environmental and human impacts, PACT Outdoors, a ...

The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is a major public health hazard. As a result, it is imperative that water ...

Sporting gloves, masks, goggles and baggy cleanroom bunny suits, Juan Delgado and Luis Martinez get to work on the southern edge of Downtown in a condo parking lot. They aren’t mopping up a chemical ...

Rafting through the Grand Canyon comes with a long list of expectations, including towering canyon walls, cold river water, ...

“Poop is central to the story of how dogs came into our lives," write Duke University dog researchers Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods in their wonderful new book, Survival of the Friendliest: ...