This story was originally published by Investigate Midwest. The cool morning spring breeze hit Saundra Traywick “like a punch to the face.” Walking through her wooded 38-acre donkey farm in central ...

For a decade, local lawmakers pointed to fertilizer as a key killer of the Indian River Lagoon. Others warned septic tanks and sewage spills were more at fault for the foul brown tides and other ...

Washington is one step closer to eliminating a major blind spot for potential contaminants in crops grown across the state using human waste as fertilizer. Lawmakers voted unanimously last week to ...

Across North Carolina, treated sewage sludge—known as biosolids—is spread on farmland as fertilizer. But growing concerns over PFAS contamination have farmers, utilities, and regulators grappling with ...

At the St. Helena restaurant Press, gone are the days when kitchen staff scraped leftovers into trash bags destined for the landfill. Instead, the restaurant has installed a state-of-the-art ...

For years, Paul Danbom let good fertilizer go to waste. On his 900-head dairy farm in Turlock, California, he was buying fertilizer for his distant cornfields. Meanwhile, he was paying to dispose of ...

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by Investigate Midwest, an independent, nonprofit newsroom. The cool morning spring breeze hit Saundra Traywick “like a punch to the face.” Walking ...