Related: The top 10 views of Earth from space However, swine lagoons have some downsides, as you may have guessed. For example, excess nutrients from the waste in the form of nitrogen and ...

The interactive map points out swine and cattle operations ... Included are manure lagoons from swine operations, detailing how close they are to streams, rivers and other public water sources.

Swine waste lagoons are outdoor basins used to store liquid manure produced by swine farming operations. "Historically, we only knew how many pigs were found on farms as an aggregate for each ...

The technology to use organisms harvested from swine lagoons to recycle wastewater has lift-off and is being perfected by those in the environmental engineering industry, including Hampton-based ...

Now that hurricane season has arrived, hundreds of waste lagoons could be flooded by climate-amplified storms, threatening ...

They show flooded poultry barns and "lagoons" filled with swine manure, spilling animal waste into nearby waterways. Sponsor Message According to the two groups, the flood waters partially ...

The routine use of antibiotics in swine production can have unintended consequences, with antibiotic resistance genes sometimes leaking from waste lagoons into groundwater. In a new study ...

image: Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an automated technique that uses satellite imagery to determine when swine waste lagoons --like the one pictured here-- were ...