A particularly impressive red alga has already shown great promise in dramatically reducing the alarming levels of methane gas produced by a cow's enteric digestive system. Now, a team of scientists ...

Approximately a third of all anthropogenic methane is emitted by ruminant livestock. These animals get nutrients through fermenting food in four-chambered stomachs found in cows, sheep, and goats.

PIXLEY, Calif. (AP) — The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California's farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at ...

The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California’s farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at home to counter the ...

Innovative practices — from diet additives to regenerative grazing — can offer quick wins in the fight against global rising ...

Efforts to reduce methane emissions are urgently needed if we are to meet global climate change goals. Could innovation, informed by study findings, help move the needle? We look at the latest ...

Technician Blake Iske looks out over farmland adjacent to the Marshall Ridge Renewable Energy Center in State Center on Sept. 18. The facility’s three anaerobic manure digesters extract methane from ...

Methane is responsible for around 30% of the rise in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution, and yet the world's climate conversation remains overwhelmingly focused on carbon dioxide.

Manure is a billion-dollar industry. In North Carolina, for example, the hog industry generates 19,000 jobs and $10 billion a year in economic output, but with pork production struggling, hog farmers ...