CHANGSHA, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Can monitoring burps help fight climate change? Chinese zoologists have recently developed a system that estimates methane emissions from cattle and sheep by tracking ...

ADDING a dash of fish oil to animal fodder could help farmers stifle the greenhouse gases wafting from their farmyards. Switching animals from regular feed onto a diet of fishy fodder cut the amount ...

Here’s a novel way to combat global warming: Settle the stomachs of gassy cows. As it turns out, cow burps are a major contributor to global methane emissions, a troubling fact considering the gas is ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. The ...

It’s an oppressively hot morning in the barnyard, even in the shade of the long open-air structure where the cows come to feed. On a typical farm, they would gather around a trough, but here at UC ...

Federated Farmers, the industry's main lobby group, said the plan would “rip the guts out of small-town New Zealand” and see farms replaced with trees. Dairy cows graze on a farm near Oxford, in the ...

MENTION the phrases “greenhouse gases” and “global warming” in the same breath and most people will think of the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil. But CO 2 is not ...