Your grass-fed burger isn’t better for the planet, new study finds
Grass-fed beef has no climate benefit — even when taking into account that healthy pastureland can trap carbon, according to ...
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How scientists measured cow burps from space
The day that a new era in agricultural emissions monitoring began — and yes, this really happened. Jed Thomas In an ...
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Methane Reduction in Livestock: Confronting the North-South Gap
These upgrades reduced production costs and increased producer income, but they also significantly reduced methane emissions per unit of output. The cattle devoted more of the energy they took in to ...
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Methane from cow manure makes new energy
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 ...
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Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Cut Methane Emissions and Diversify Maine’s Coastal Economy, but Can It Scale?
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 ...
Methane emissions are turbocharging climate change – these quick fixes could slow it down
Methane is a greenhouse gas that, molecule for molecule, traps heat in the atmosphere more effectively than carbon dioxide, ...
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ZNE CRC launches project focussed on low-cost methane measurement from livestock
Just nine months since its establishment in July last year, the Zero Net Emissions Agriculture CRC has announced an ...
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Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases before it goes into effect
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Trump repeals America’s first-ever tax on greenhouse gases ...
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Methane emissions are turbocharging climate change. These quick fixes could slow it down
The methane is made by methanogens, which are microbes that live in oxygen-poor environments, like the stomachs of cows, and biodigesters (which grow bacteria to convert organic waste into ...