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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From fish poop to marijuana, the circle of life bubbles and pumps through pipes and pools within the walls of a cold-looking industrial warehouse in Lansing. It’s a licensed marijuana grow, Thumb ...

Ever since developers learned how to tap coal seams in the Powder River Basin for natural gas, they’ve struggled with what to do with the brackish groundwater that comes out first. A fish may be the ...

Editor’s Note: The following story was produced for Youth Takeover week at KQED. Most farms grow food with soil and water. But at Ouroboros Farm in Half Moon Bay, Ken Armstrong grows food with water ...

Tickled by sunlight, life teems at the ocean surface. Yet the influence of any given microbe, plankton, or fish there extends far beyond this upper layer. In the form of dead organisms or poop, ...

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 ...

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was a production largely defined by tragedy. The premature death of Chadwick Boseman in 2020 shaped the film both in terms of story, which had to be rethought ...

If your yard is tiny, or even just a balcony, Jordan Karambelas has a suggestion for growing food organically: a good-looking aquaponics system that uses recycled water enriched by fish poop to ...