In Japan, a smelly waste product is being reimagined as a potential clean fuel of the future that is powering cars and tractors.

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

Methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, but there is far less of it in the atmosphere ... It is also released by rice fields, the decay of food waste in rubbish dumps, and even ...

What do cows, gas pipelines and landfills have in common? CH4, an organic molecule better known as methane. While the effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions has long focused on carbon dioxide ...

a greenhouse gas 28 times more potent than CO2, although shorter lived in the atmosphere. That methane is released through belching and farting, and on average, a single cow can produce about 200 ...

Researchers are working on a way to dramatically reduce the methane gas that cows burp out ... a heat-trapping greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. Cow burps and farts account for more than ...

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 ...

As cows digest their food they release methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas which, although shorter-lived in the atmosphere, has a global warming impact 84 times higher than carbon dioxide (CO2 ...

SAPPORO--The feces and urine of thousands of Hokkaido dairy cows may soon power facilities ... methanol and formic acid that emits zero carbon dioxide (CO2). Okubo on Feb. 9 signed an agreement ...