If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big ...

If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. Aside from personal inconvenience, why is this such a big ...

I love pooping outside. One morning in Alaska, a humpback whale breached offshore just as I squatted with my pants around my ankles. Another morning, in Idaho, I watched hummingbirds sip nectar from ...

Dear Sundog: When I was growing up, young and free, pooping outdoors was much more casual and fun because there were fewer people—and fewer rules. Is it possible to follow those rules and still have a ...

When his first daughter was in diapers, Jake Thomas began thinking about the problem of poop, never imagining it would become his life’s work. But it has. Thomas and his brother-in-law, Noah Schum, ...

NOTE: We would be remiss not to take advantage of this spell of abnormally cooler weather in North Texas this year. That’s why, despite Dallas’ concrete confines, we’ve been offering up suggestions ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you’re one of the 63 million Americans who went hiking last year, chances are you’ve found yourself needing to go, with no toilet in sight. In Colorado, the problem has gotten so ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shari Edelson, Penn State and B. Derrick Taff, Penn State (THE CONVERSATION) If you’re ...