A species of fungus found in soil can be fed to cows to cut down on the potent greenhouse gas methane in their burps. “It’s a fungal soup,” says Matthew Callaghan at Roam Agricultural ...

But one startup has a way to change that — all while making the cows larger and more productive, MIT Technology Review reported. The issue is methane. Harvested from underground, it's sold as ...

The food security provided by cows and other domesticated ruminants cannot be replaced. The world’s hungriest people need the ...

From cow burps to cow manure, it’s stirred up an ongoing debate: just how much methane do cattle emit, and can it be reduced? As global dairy companies set a new goal to trace and reduce ...

A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down into the stomach of Thing One, a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent cows from burping methane ...

Recently, it took part in a research trial with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Boothbay, Maine to see if feeding seaweed to cows could reduce the methane they produce. Preliminary ...

Cows belch methane as they digest their fodder and, above a concentration of five per cent, methane becomes explosive. Apparently, nobody explained to the folks at the South Fork Dairy (near ...

The energy is derived from methane gas produced by the manure of the 800-plus dairy cows that inhabit Haubenschild Farms located near Princeton. Richard Huelskamp, a scientist with the University’s ...

Most of the climate damage is caused by the release of methane from cow burps (not cow farts) generated during fermentation in the bovine’s multi-chambered stomach. Nestlé is working on its ...