PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Portlanders may be speaking a lot about Poop to Power this summer, when the city treatment plant expects to begin converting sewage into renewable natural gas. But ...

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 ...

In this episode of Gross Science, field reporter, Elizabeth Gillis, goes to a dairy farm and a waste water treatment plant to learn how to turn poop into heat, electricity, and fertilizer. Anna ...

(KXAN) — From sun to water to poop, renewable energy comes in a variety of forms. David Yeomans, the chief meteorologist at Nexstar’s KXAN in Austin, explores renewable energy sources and why ...

The Water Pollution Control Plant in South Arlington (via DES/Flickr) Your poop could give Arlington County natural gas to power buildings or buses. The energy could be used to power the wastewater ...

Most people don’t give a second thought to the poop they flush away. But perhaps they should, because the energy contained within our repellent remains is impressive. If you let poop fester—and you ...

The human body doesn’t extract all the energy out of food, so our waste is a great untapped energy source. Now, thanks to purple photosynthetic bacteria, we can convert our poop into hydrogen and ...

Innovators from around the world who see power in steaming piles of poop are getting serious money from Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates' foundation to help the world's 2.1 billion urban dwellers ...