Alternative sanitation systems use creatures that find homes in human poop. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a ...

Editor's note: This story has been modified to clarify the list of appropriate items for home composting. Starting this month, tons of organic waste — from half-eaten school lunches at Bloomington ...

As I write this: Composting is now MANDATORY on the other side of the Hudson. Grade school students around the country are collecting compostable food scraps from their school cafeterias for ...

Nina Schoen likes the idea of life (plant life) springing from death. Schoen has a close friend who chose to have her remains made into compost. The process of those remains being broken down into ...

"It's all very apocalyptic, which is kind of fun." That's how Lina Fisher described to me the seven-month rabbit hole she fell through in reporting this week's cover story about composting. It began ...