With the world set to mark the World Toilet Day on Thursday, Kenya still ranks poorly in toilet use. Latest statistics show that 5.6 million people have no latrine at all and defecate in the open. The ...

That’s what colleagues and I found when we studied households across six rural Cambodian provinces, focusing on their access to proper toilets and when people decide to abandon sanitary systems in ...

The idea that medieval people routinely emptied chamber pots straight into the street as their primary method of waste ...

Toilets are everyone's best friend in the morning. And you know exactly why. Talking about it may not sound so pleasant, but this mundane daily object has a rich history that is worth "unloading." ...

Last month, I discovered a wonderful innovation in an oppressive place — the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. The camps host members of the Rohingya ethnic group, many of whom fled Myanmar in ...

PUPPIES CAN be taught. So can human children, though not for the first couple of years. Now, in the hope of fighting climate change, Dr Jan Langbein, of the Fredrich-Loweffler-Institut in Germany, and ...