Most people peel a banana, eat the fruit, and toss the skin without a second thought. It’s a reflex so automatic that ...

Last year, Brandi Howse’s annual mammogram returned a grim diagnosis: Stage 3 breast cancer. To save her life, she had her breasts removed, then her ovaries. She’s free of the disease now and ...

Feeding dairy cows unsold fruit, vegetables and bakery waste can maintain milk production while improving fibre digestibility ...

Pressures such as population growth, urbanization, and land degradation are straining the global agrifood system, the network connecting all steps of the food supply chain from growing crops in the ...

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

The Apex Sanitary Landfill in Ohio is among the landfills in the state accepting oil and gas waste. Credit: Julie Grant/The Allegheny Front Tina and Bill Higgins have lived among forested Appalachian ...

A city partnership with Mill and R.City tracked food scraps from offices and homes as Phoenix works on waste goals.

Trash piles atop the South Kent County Landfill in Byron, Michigan. The landfill opened in 1986 and will be at capacity in around 5 years. (Photo by Nick Hagen / Planet Detroit) This is your first of ...

Every week on trash day, truckloads of waste are hauled off to three dozen landfills across the state. But some Iowa landfills are nearing the end of their lifespans, prompting communities to look ...