Generating power while purifying the environment of greenhouse gases should be achievable using bacteria. Microbiologists have demonstrated that it is possible to make methane-consuming bacteria ...

High atop the mountain of garbage that's the Berkeley County landfill, an emerging network of pipes could turn trash into treasure. The 6-inch plastic pipes started going down through the muck last ...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Public Health Image Library, NIAID, Image ID: 18139) Generating power while purifying the ...

When discussing climate change, carbon dioxide sucks up a lot of the air, so to speak. Less attention is spent on methane, which accounts for 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions but is 80 times ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The world's largest pork company said it's going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding to farms across North Carolina, Utah ...

Small bacteria found in fertilizer-polluted freshwater ditches, streams, and lakes are like little power generators, according to new research from Radboud University in the Netherlands. There, ...

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire city of Lebanon has signed contracts to convert methane gas generated from its landfill into energy. The project is estimated to cost $5 million and the city ...

What if you could power your home with what you flush down the toilet? The technology does exist. A new $11 million waste-water treatment plant in Salem is producing both power and heat from poop.