Greg Langmo’s work is the centerpiece of America’s Thanksgiving dinner table. But finding a use for the by-products of his family-run turkey farm near Litchfield, Minn., has long been a challenge for ...

Data centers often get described as power hogs. But hogs, cows or other livestock might actually be the power source of the future for these energy sucking facilities. Researchers at HP Labs released ...

How many homes could be heated by cow muck? It is not a question I have thought about before, but as Britain searches for sustainable sources of heat, many farmers are looking, well, right under their ...

Human waste is certainly plentiful, but clean? In fact, it is -- if used the right way. That's why some British utilities are planning to harness the biomethane gas produced at sewage treatment plants ...

At barn No. 5 at the Larson Dairy farm just north of Lake Okeechobee, a line of cows pump out milk bound for grocery stores shelves and family refrigerators across Florida. Being cows, they are also ...

The stench of clogged toilets fills the air at the US capital's wastewater treatment facility. And for good reason -- it's one of the world's largest projects to transform human waste into electricity ...

A college farm has invested £275,000 in technology to turn poo into power for its robotic dairy. The anaerobic digester at Home Farm, on Wiltshire College and University Centre's Lackham campus, takes ...