You probably flush a nutrient-rich, renewable fertilizer down the toilet every day: your pee. Human urine can be used as a safe and effective crop fertilizer, researchers said. And studies show using ...

Many of us want a lush, green, thriving lawn, but along with the right choice of grass and good mowing habits, it's important to decide which fertilizer is best to use. There's one option that's ...

The use of human urine as fertilizer is an important step towards sustainable agriculture because the starting reagent is free, plentiful and useless in most other contexts. It has been used as such ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan has installed a special toilet and urinal in a campus engineering building that take aim at converting human urine into agricultural fertilizers. The ...

A high-ranking Indian minister has proposed a novel way to help his country's agriculture industry: Converting the nutrients in people's urine into fertilizer. Nitin Gadkari, India's water resources ...

It's likely that most of the food you'll eat today was not farmed sustainably. The global system of food production is the largest human influence on the planet's natural cycles of nitrogen and ...

University of Michigan researchers will begin collecting urine in a couple of special toilets to turn it into fertilizer for use at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens. A team of U-M engineering ...

The production of mineral based fertilizers requires a significant amount of energy and relies in part on non-renewable resources such as phosphate rock. Furthermore, the price of mineral fertilizer ...

ANN ARBOR--Recycled and aged human urine can be used as a fertilizer with low risks of transferring antibiotic resistant DNA to the environment, according to new research from the University of ...

Shipping fertilizer to colonies on Mars could be quite a hassle – it would certainly be better if the colonists were able to grow crops using whatever's on hand. The continuation of an existing study ...

BRATTLEBORO, Vermont — In Lissa Schneckenburger's garden in Brattleboro, Vermont, the tomatoes seem happy; so do the bees. And the reason may be because of how she enriches the garden – with her own ...