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What the Heck is a Fatberg?

Jessica Leigh Hester takes us into the sewers to learn about her favorite slimy topic: fatbergs.
The Podcast Team October 8, 2025
Us surface dwellers don't usually have to think about what lurks below—even when we're responsible for it.
sewers

Descend Into the Sewers With London’s Fatberg-Busters

What can we learn from wipes, oils, and fats when they overwhelm the arteries of the modern world?
Jessica Leigh Hester November 3, 2022
This is not want you want to see in a sewer.
engineering

How a Massive Fatberg Went From Sewer to Science Museum

The underground menace is now a reminder that people should be kinder to their pipes.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 24, 2020
The exhibit is both informative and disgusting.
Detroit, Michigan

The Fatberg at the Michigan Science Center

It's gunky, it's gross, and it's been freed from the sewer and put on display.
Hooray!
London, England

Whitechapel Fatberg Manhole Cover

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.
The fatbergs, or "junkbergs," are often strewn with little bits of trash.
sewers

Fed Up With Fatbergs, an Australian Water Company Recorded a Jazzy Jingle About the Sewer

Only flush the “three Ps,” please.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 1, 2019
Things weren't so pretty underground. A colossal fatberg snaked roughly 210 feet through a sewer pipe near the shore of Sidmouth.
sewers

A Pretty, Seaside Town in England Vanquished Its Giant Fatberg

It took several weeks, protective masks, and elbow grease. Oh, and also pickaxes.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 1, 2019
No!
sewers

Please Stop Stuffing Yorkshire Pudding Down the Drain

A bunch of them clogged a sewer in England, like little fatbergs made from flour and eggs.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 27, 2019
The Sidmouth fatberg is a heavy-duty mess.
sewers

7 Big Things That Are Smaller Than This Fatberg

A water company in Devon, England, found the enormous blob clogging the sewer.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 9, 2019
Don't touch the fatberg.
cemeteries

The Year in Grossness

2018 was chock-full of nauseating delights.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 28, 2018
subterranean

Meet the Fatbergs

Digging into the science of three cities' sewer-clogging blobs.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 20, 2018
A new TV special gives a fatberg the <em>CSI</em> treatment.
sewers

What an Enormous Fatberg Can Tell Us About How Londoners Live

An "autopsy" on the congealed behemoth illuminates what people flush down the drain.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 25, 2018
The winner!
sewers

Why the Sewer Is the Most Wondrous Everyday Invention

The votes are in, and the winner of Mundane Madness is right beneath your feet.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 2, 2018
Visitors can view a slice of the fatberg from behind two layers of protective glass.
science

How a Museum Cares for a Giant Chunk of Dried-Out Fat

A conservator shares the nitty-gritty details about taking a fatberg from the sewer to an exhibition.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 16, 2018