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Recent Examples of night soilThis strategy became necessary after an errant tomato plant sprouted from a visitor's night soil back in the 1960s.—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023 The night soil temperatures are not ideal to put them out yet.—oregonlive, 1 May 2021 For millennia, people collected these precious substances—often in the wee hours, giving rise to the term night soil—and used them to grow food.—Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
Qatar denounces ‘cowardly’ Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders Israel launched an aerial strike against senior Hamas leaders in Doha on Tuesday, in its first direct attack on Qatari soil, marking a significant escalation in regional tensions.
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Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
10 Sep. 2025
What Mill does is preserve food as a resource, keeping nutrients intact so they can be used to feed soil or farms.
Six months later, the internship — some of which bore all the glamour of scrubbing bird poop and bucketing hundreds of pounds of fish as dolphin food — developed into a full-time gig as a trainer.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Sep. 2025
Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage.
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Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
7 Sep. 2025
Deputies who responded to the scene said the home was covered in trash and smelled of human excrement.
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Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
5 Sep. 2025
Human excrement can contain a wide range of parasites, bacteria, and viruses that can contaminate bodies of water, causing harm not only to humans but also to flora and fauna.
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