BANTARGEBANG, Indonesia -- Long before dawn breaks over Indonesia's largest landfill, Nur Wencih joins thousands of waste pickers climbing mountains of garbage, searching for anything they can sell.

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Thousands of hungry black soldier fly larvae are helping University of Delaware researchers study a potential way to reduce food waste by turning discarded food into compost and food for other animals ...

A school student from Kerala is drawing widespread attention for creating functional robots and household machines using discarded cardboard, wires, batteries and other inexpensive materials. Levin ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The parasite’s spread can become a self-perpetuating cycle. Cyclospora is found only ...