The Amazon's big fish poop seeds far from where they eat fruit, helping to maintain the genetic diversity of the tropical forest, according to new research that shines light on a little-studied ...

If, in a few years, you are suddenly overcome with a sense that there's something fishy about the lettuce in your salad, you might be on to something. There's a chance it was grown with fish poop.

Adorned with spikes and toxins, crown-of-thorns starfish aren’t an easy meal. In fact, it’s long been thought that few animals could eat them. But an analysis of fish poop and stomach contents from ...

In a surprising twist on ‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger,’ scientists have discovered that the poop from fish that predate on coral provides a massive payload of crucial microscopic ...

Poop may hold the secret to preserving youth — at least for some fish. In a recent study, scientists discovered that older fish lived longer when they fed on microbes from younger fish's feces. Their ...

Experts studying the aquaponics industry have a great gut feeling about reusing fish waste to create biogas (biologically derived gas), which can then help to power the sustainable food-growing ...

The feces of some algae-eating fish could be deadly to coral reefs while coral-eating fish could benefit reefs, according to a new study from Rice University. Grazers, or fish that consume algae and ...

Jordan Karambelas reaches for fish in the two-tiered aquaponics system she made from redwood in the courtyard at Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach. Fish-poop-enriched water is pumped to the ...

When you picture the quintessential American farmer, what comes to mind? The person you imagine might not look much like the mostly young, stylishly coiffed group of farmers and agricultural ...