Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gloved hand holding a urine sample - Someone25/Getty Images Many of us want a lush, green, thriving lawn, but along with the ...

Gardeners love a good secret, especially one that turns waste into something wildly useful. Hidden in plain sight sits one of ...

Human urine — often flushed away without thought — could be key to making agriculture and wastewater treatment more sustainable and energy efficient, according to new research from the University of ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont — In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own ...

The production of mineral based fertilizers requires a significant amount of energy and relies in part on non-renewable resources such as phosphate rock. Furthermore, the price of mineral fertilizer ...

The reuse of human urine would allow for the production of sustainable fertilizers for urban agriculture, with significant environmental benefits. This is the conclusion of a study conducted by the ...

A team of chemists and agriculture specialists has developed a way to transform urea in wastewater, into percarbamide, which can be used as a fertilizer. In their paper published in the journal Nature ...

Scientists show how human urine can be transformed into nutrient-rich fertilizer, cutting energy use in wastewater treatment.

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A Vermont organization is turning human urine into fertilizer that is being used on a half-dozen farms in that state and would like to expand the service into New Hampshire. “We have people who are ...

In the last century, synthetic fertilizers have changed the face of the planet. The current world population might be halved if not for this useful development. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...