Not reporting animal-waste pollution will allow responders to focus more on emergencies WASHINGTON — The nation’s farms no longer have to report to authorities the toxic, smelly fumes released from ...

Human and animal waste can replace many fertilizers if managed better and used closer to farms, improving farming systems.

The world’s growing livestock industry produces millions of tons of animal manure every year, creating both environmental and public health challenges. A new study shows that this abundant waste ...

What’s coming out of dogs, cats, deer and other wildlife, not the sewage pumping stations, is polluting Anne Arundel’s creeks, said the county public works director. “A majority of the nitrogen load ...

Wildlife species throughout the world are contending with both chemical pollutants and invasive species. In a newly published review, a University of Wyoming researcher examined how chemical pollution ...

Wenonah Hauter is the founder and executive director of Food & Water Watch, and the author of "Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America." Abdication of government ...

Iowa’s factory farms produce 109 billion pounds of waste annually, a 78% increase over 20 years, and more than 25 times the state’s human population A Food & Water Watch analysis of USDA’s 2022 Census ...

Several hog farms in North Carolina were properly allowed to collect energy from the animals' waste, a state appeals court said Tuesday, ruling that their permit applications were scrutinized ...

A study by the University of Portsmouth has revealed for the first time the extent of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on livestock, humans and the wider environment on the Kenyan island of ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several hog farms in North Carolina were properly allowed to collect energy from the animals’ waste, a state appeals court said Tuesday, ruling that their permit applications were ...