The last thing the world needs is a high tech electrochemical reactor toilet. This is a social problem, not a technical one.

Bill Gates take note: It's all in here and It is surprising how little has changed

Pooping in a hole in the ground isn't everyone's cup of tea. But with views like these, relieving yourself the old fashioned way can feel positively luxurious.

Another year down the drain: From pee-powered generators to pigeons that shit soap, it's been quite a year for toilet-related stories. Here are some of our favorites.

A look at what has changed, and how much has actually stayed the same.

It's about time that we stopped wasting drinking water to flush away our waste; Allison Bailes did it and isn't complaining.

This simple Australian design has some interesting features and benefits.

A toilet is just the working end of a much larger system that can have a huge impact on society.

Urine for a surprise as Alex Wilson concludes that urine collection beats composting. I was, because they are not mutually exclusive.

Put your poop to work; it's fuel for a biological furnace.

This is a very clever and clean alternative toilet. Unfortunately, it shrink-wraps your poop in foil and sends it to landfill.

Another look at what's out there in the world of composting and other alternative toilets

Was it design, or was it our resistance to change? What made the NoMix a NoGo?

Nutrient cycling is important. But it's not something you want to get arrested for.

The new interpretive center has earned certification from the Sustainable Sites Initiative, and features a green roof planted with native prairie grasses.

It's becoming easier to do so as the rules change and the toilets get better.

Here's the drill on the Earth Drill toilet.

I really don't want to crap all over this new toilet design, but it is too complex, too expensive and no, it won't charge your phone.

Here's the hot poop on a toilet with a conveyor belt to move the stuff out of sight, out of mind.

We turn on the tap and run some of our favorite stories.

The big Glastonbury music festival is getting new composting loos

Architect designs a composting toilet that is "no cost, no impact"

If you gotta go, you should have a clean private environmentally friendly place to go.

Who says loos have to be boring and utilitarian?

Got some clean electricity? Then you can cremate your crap.

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.

Gord Baird and Ann Baird have written the definitive guide.

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior. While the behavior has

Since 2006, bat populations in the northeastern United States have been decimated by a mysterious condition known as "white-nose syndrome." Caused by a fungus,

Ah love. Woody Allen has some nice thoughts on this tricky thing that perhaps gets more thought around Valentine's Day. The recent swan divorce shocked us to the core, so we decided to ponder the happy

A lesson in loving flying nocturnal mammals.

With thousands of species listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature -- and some 110,000

photo: US Fish & Wildlife Service via flickr White nose syndrome, a disease caused by exposure to a particular fungus, first discovered in 2006, has been afflicting bats in the eastern United States and appears to be spreading. Considering that it's

At the edge of the Amazon, a remote tribe suffers a plague of rabies spread by desperate vampire bats. It sounds like the plot from a bad B-movie, but the reality is far more grim: More than 500 people have been

If all goes well between now and Halloween, Griffis Sculpture Park in upstate New York will be ready for the occasion with its very own colony of bats, thanks to the artsy "Bat Tower" being built to draw the pest-fighting pollinators to the area.

When it comes to finding fascinating species previously unknown to science, it turns out that forests of Papua New Guinea are a darn good place to look. Researchers have recently disclosed their

New York's brown bat continues to be hard hit by White Nose Syndrome (WNS). WNS is named for the white fungus that eats bat tissues and wakes the bats prematurely from hibernation. WNS has been

Insect hotels are architectural, recycled and perfectly formed. But you can't stay there: they are for the bugs.

If you've ever seen a colony of bats on the move and wondered what they're up to, this is the billboard for you. The "Bat Billboard," a collaboration of designer Chris Woebken and artist Natalie Jeremijenko, is a

South Carolina health department announces a human rabies case sourced from a bat.

The filming of a Sylvester Stallone movie in a Bulgarian cave has dramatically reduced the animals' numbers, bat experts say.

A young sea turtle found in the Netherlands will be released after a three-year recovery. We also have the search for the "extinct" Javan tiger, Sylvester Stallone's bat cave incident, and more.

White nose syndrome has decimated bat populations on the East Coast. Now scientists believe the disease, which is spreading, may have been worse than previously imagined.

Wind power is not just a Danish success story - Swedish wind is growing leaps and bounds. But the bats may suffer, so the Swedes are trying to impose 'bat happy hour'

Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.

In the face of a devastating epidemic, bats need our tender loving care more than ever. If one sneaks inside, here's how to remove it without toxicants or harm.

It's National Pollinator Week! Start a garden, encourage pollinators, or join an event in your area.

A study of the impact of small residential wind turbine installations on local wildlife populations shows a potential loss of habitat for bats and a steep reduction in activity around the units.

A Dutch landscape architecture firm is proposing a clever way to help animals navigate the urban environment -- using the same infrastructure human city-dwellers rely on to get from place to place.

One architect creates a series of intriguing artificial habitats for threatened bat populations.