In 1915, William Carlos Williams published a poem about dog waste. When industrial fertilizer replaced dung heaps, its spoils helped fund the spread of plastics. “Pastoral” shuns rural ...

The dung heaps are a tacit reminder that these works may still be retrieved. The New National Gallery's permanent collection includes work from many artists, including Max Beckmann, Otto Dix ...

Scientists have been getting up close and personal with white rhinos' dung heaps in South Africa, and found that they were leaving messages for other rhinos. It works because the different animals ...

Dairy farmer Ron Koetsier’s 1,200 cows produce roughly 90 tons of manure daily, and for the past three decades, he has tried unsuccessfully to turn the stinky dung into energy to power his 450 ...