Fatberg

Jessica Leigh Hester takes us into the sewers to learn about her favorite slimy topic: fatbergs.

What can we learn from wipes, oils, and fats when they overwhelm the arteries of the modern world?

The underground menace is now a reminder that people should be kinder to their pipes.

Only flush the “three Ps,” please.

It took several weeks, protective masks, and elbow grease. Oh, and also pickaxes.

A bunch of them clogged a sewer in England, like little fatbergs made from flour and eggs.

A water company in Devon, England, found the enormous blob clogging the sewer.

2018 was chock-full of nauseating delights.

Digging into the science of three cities' sewer-clogging blobs.

An "autopsy" on the congealed behemoth illuminates what people flush down the drain.

The votes are in, and the winner of Mundane Madness is right beneath your feet.

A conservator shares the nitty-gritty details about taking a fatberg from the sewer to an exhibition.