The piece of fatberg was slightly smaller than a loaf of bread and looked like it might have come from the moon. It was putty-colored and marked everywhere with geological-looking indentations, ...

Someone may pour molten chicken fat down a drain, while a neighbor might flush a wet wipe down the toilet. When the two meet in a dank sewer pipe, a baby fatberg is born. A fatberg forms like a ...

A 130 tonne fatberg blocking a London sewer is to be converted into roughly 10,000 liters of biodiesel, it has been announced. In a statement on Monday, Thames Water said around one third of the ...

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Officials in Baltimore announced earlier this week that a massive, concealed lump of fats, oils, grease and wet wipes was to blame for an overflow that dumped some 1.2 million gallons of sewage into ...

Is there a fatberg under your street? DIY SOS' Nick Knowles shares the signs to look for. To watch this with subtitles go to ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The ...

Engineers are battling a 143-ton so-called “fatberg” of diapers, fat and oil that is clogging up a sewer in London. Thames Water, which has started a three-week “sewer war” against the monster, says ...

If you pour used cooking grease down the kitchen sink, you’re not alone—according to a new survey, 44 percent of respondents in the D.C. region pour cooking oil, fat, or grease down the sink at least ...

A so-called “fatberg”—a tightly congealed mass of fat, wet wipes, diapers, and condoms—is blocking a section of London’s Victorian-era sewage network. It could take weeks for utility crews to remove ...

A disgusting, congealed blob of fat, oil, and other unpleasant household waste has been discovered blocking a major sewer line underneath London. The so-called "fatberg" weighs 143 tons, and is ...

What used to be a disgusting subterranean mass of congealed waste – also known as a fatberg – will soon be on display at a London museum. The peculiar exhibit is but a fragment of one of the largest ...