Humans are kind of gross. We collectively create a constant stream of waste that threatens city-dwellers with plague and pestilence unless it is safely carried away. Sewers convert that figurative ...

A group of residents angry about dog fouling along their seafront have set up a "poo patrol" as a way of highlighting the problem. Villagers from Knott End-on-Sea, near Fleetwood in Lancashire, walk 1 ...

Hollyoaks star Paul Danan has died at the age of 46. He was best known for playing bad boy Sol Patrick in the Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Danan later appeared on ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Paul Danan, the actor and Love Island star best known for playing Sol Patrick in Hollyoaks from 1997 to 2001, has died at the age of 46.

Chicken poo is a factor in low housing growth along the England and Wales border, MPs have heard. Poultry farming creates “significant challenges” for the River Wye, water minister Emma Hardy ...

It can be lovely to own a dog but there is one not-so-pleasant chore that comes with the territory — picking up its poo. Not everyone has the time, nerve or physical ability to do away with ...

The main dog walk essentials are a dog collar, a dog leash and dog poop bags. Responsible dog owners should always be armed with a bag to clean up after their pets. Though scooping poop isn’t ...

The poop, or guano, of infected birds is teeming with viruses. Out of all known influenza subtypes, all but two have been found in birds. The other two subtypes have only been found in bats.

When Margaret and John Yu bought Paul’s Restaurant at 1800 Broadway in 1992, they considered changing the name and converting to a Chinese menu. Instead, they decided to honor the family-style ...

Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions. A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of ...

How poop could help feed the planet A new industrial facility in suburban Seattle is giving off a whiff of futuristic technology. It can safely treat fecal waste from people and livestock while ...