Field workers spread locally-sourced bat guano fertilizer on biodynamically grown marijuana plants at the SPARC cannabis farm in Glen Ellen, Calif. on Friday, July 14, 2017. Erich Pearson's expansive ...

Two men from New York died from pneumonia they contracted from bat feces — after they used the excrement as fertilizer to grow marijuana, a new study found. The unidentified men from Rochester, ages ...

The men, aged 59 and 64, had symptoms including chronic cough, fever, blood poisoning and respiratory failure Stan Tekiela Author/Naturalist/Wildlife Photographer/Getty Two men from New York have died ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Gray News) - Two men from New York have died after using bat feces as a fertilizer to grow cannabis. According to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Disease, the Rochester ...

Your garden can benefit from the excretory droppings of bats, known as guano, which helps enrich your soil by providing carbon and energy to support helpful microbes. These microbes play a key role in ...

Two men from Rochester, New York, who grew their own cannabis died from pneumonia after being exposed to a harmful fungus in bat poop they'd used as fertilizer. When you purchase through links on our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Buried deep within caves, bats — and especially their ...

Economic growth and wildlife conservation often run in conflict, but Mozambican scientist Cesária Huo hopes to support a new fully sustainable and economically viable model for harvesting a potent ...

Bat guano — a.k.a., droppings — preserves evidence of past fires, a recent analysis suggests, providing an “unconventional” record that could help scientists learn more about fire history. The study, ...