Last time we talked about how astronauts eat and drink under weightless conditions in space. Today we'll cover the next question kids love to ask-how do astronauts go to the bathroom in space? It may sound silly, but it's really a good question, beca

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It may sound silly, but its really a good question, because weightlessness does make a visit to the latrine a tricky proposition. Weightlessness poses two main problems in the bathroom. The first is that an astronaut could drift away from the bowl at

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Human Waste Killing Caribbean Coral In the first documented case of a human pathogen infecting a marine species, U.S. scientists say a bacterium in untreated human sewage is killing coral along the Florida coast and in the Caribbean Sea. The finding

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Questions Remain on Ebola Waste Disposal 埃博拉的废物处理费问题 Ebola is contracted by coming into contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. Health workers wear spacesuit-like protective gear when treating patients. But researc

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DON GONYEA, HOST: Port-au-Prince, Haiti is a city of more than 3 million people with no sewer system. International donors have spent millions of dollars on infrastructure meant to help the situation. But a multi-year plan to build sewage treatment p

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Ecolab Inc., an American global provider of clean energy technologies and services, has made great progress on helping industries in China to produce their goods with less water consumption. Those industries include dairy plants, food industries, ste

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