Last week, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality officially approved the installation of biogas digesters at four Smithfield-owned hog waste lagoons in the Sampson and Duplin counties ...

A University of Alabama biology professor is working to trace the origins of the pollution in Alabama’s river waters. But first she needs a few baggies of wild hog poop. Julie Olson, a professor and ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The world's largest pork company said it's going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding to farms across North Carolina, Utah ...

Alternatives to the current fuel used to power planes have been explored for decades, with the goal of reducing carbon emissions and creating cleaner air. Immediately, the thought that comes to mind ...

To mark the unofficial start of summer over Memorial Day weekend, my partner and I went hiking at Geode State Park near our home in rural southeast Iowa. As we walked around the lake, we came across ...

Holding spades in gloved hands, they collect buckets of moist pig poop and carefully drive it to a lab on the edge of campus. Inside a white metal building among fields of corn and soybeans, the ...