As Massachusetts pushes to reduce landfill waste, three composting companies in the Berkshires are helping residents and ...

A Spanish court has ruled that government inaction on livestock waste pollution violated the human rights of residents in ...

As the European Union (EU) looks for ways to cut its agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and manage its energy transition, biogas and with it biomethane has gained renewed traction.

Will Potter’s “Little Red Barns” is an impassioned and thoroughly researched examination of factory farming and how it harms animals, the planet and us.

For almost as long as I can remember, Lake Winnipeg has been in trouble.

Maryland’s general wastewater discharge permit for the state’s polluting poultry factory farms expires on July 7 Annapolis, MD – Today, nine national and state environmental groups sent a letter ...

There, unsuspecting farmers used waste sludge from Galey and Lord for parts of 20 years to enrich their crops. Farmers in the area grow a variety of food crops, including beans and corn.

Factory farms in Iowa produce 109 billion pounds of waste each year, according to a new report from Food and Water Watch about concentrated livestock operations in the U.S.

In natural farming systems, cows eat grass and chickens peck for insects, turning things we don’t eat into food that we can. However in factory farms, animals are fed grain that could be used to ...

This seminar examines the production and management of this waste in North Carolina (USA) pig farms, focusing on the emergence of a corporate-driven, government-subsidized waste-to-energy sector that ...

Every farm, even the scenic ones with red barns and rolling hills, is a kind of environmental crime scene, an echo of whatever wilderness it once replaced.