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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you're home cooking a meal, what do you do with the leftover stems from leafy greens, or the rind after squeezing a lemon to add flavor to a dish? What about items on your dinner plate that you ...

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Question: What practices occur at our local waste facilities to prevent contamination of water sources (drinking and otherwise)? Answer: Waste facilities are broken down into classes with specific ...

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 ...

As technology spreads, the waste industry is beginning to identify the cost of treating landfill leachate for PFAS. Republic ...

California regulators are recommending the state weaken its hazardous waste disposal rules in a bid to dump contaminated soil at some municipal landfills within the state. State officials say revising ...

READING, Pa. – The Berks County Commissioners voted Thursday to approve a resolution authorizing disposal capacity agreements for the 2024-2034 municipal waste management plan period. The plan is ...