Regulations surrounding landfills are unlikely to be affected by Thursday’s “endangerment finding” rollback. But a warming climate brings broader dangers for the industry and its workers.

University Heights residents voice opposition as city ends free food waste collection service that diverted 8,000 pounds of ...

Last year, six hog farms in the state were the first to get funding from California’s program to offset its emissions from ...

The Montezuma County Landfill operates under a financial structure known as an “enterprise” operation, a model designed to ...

The landfill has strategies to limit bald eagles’ access to garbage. But a true solution will require a transformation, said ...

Safely disposing of household batteries is good for the home and good for the environment. Dead batteries can leak heavy metals into soil and water once they reach the landfill.

Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...

Mardi Gras in New Orleans can generate more than 1,000 tons of trash every year. A coalition of nonprofit groups, city officials and scientists has a plan to clean it up.

Ethylene—the chemical used to create much of the world’s plastics—has a carbon problem that Professor Ted Sargent is working ...

Radioactive mill waste has largely been removed from the Colorado River site, with remaining cleanup continuing toward a planned 2029 closure.