Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An engineer explains the surprisingly complex science that helps keep trash in landfills. It’s not fun to think about landfills.

A team has found via testing from airplanes that landfill work faces tend to be responsible for the biggest share of methane emissions in U.S. landfills. Their findings are published in the journal ...

Landfills’ work faces, the areas where fresh waste is dumped, are responsible for a huge share of methane emissions in US landfills, yet work face emissions have largely gone uncounted by traditional ...