Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by Dusty Pixel photography via Getty Images) The latest beef in Olympia? Cow burps, farts, and poops. Washington lawmakers ...

At barn No. 5 at the Larson Dairy farm just north of Lake Okeechobee, a line of cows pump out milk bound for grocery stores shelves and family refrigerators across Florida. Being cows, they are also ...

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If only we could get cows to burp and fart less, we may be able to clean up some air pollution. That’s the theory behind an Australian climate tech company, Rumin8, now backed by Bill Gates’ ...

New research suggests that breeding dairy cows to fart less -- and, therefore, release less methane -- could cut down on greenhouse gases. No need to make a stink: Controlling bovine flatulence could ...

This new dairy farm bill is an udder failure. Cityslicker state lawmakers from the Big Apple want to limit the number of cows on New York’s dairy farms – a green push that opponents argue would ...

Earth has a cow problem. Cow agriculture is one of the largest emitters of climate-warming methane to the atmosphere. But adding a type of red algae known for its methane-inhibiting properties to cow ...

Most of that is methane emitted by cow manure and from their farts and belches. California’s strategy for cutting its methane footprint has so far hinged on providing incentives, mostly to the dairy ...

As California seeks to lead the nation on battling climate change, perhaps no debate is more fraught than the one over climate credits for cow poop. More than a decade ago, California helped spark a ...

The latest beef in Olympia? Cow burps, farts, and poops. Washington lawmakers are considering a bill that seeks to gather better data on the scale and scope of methane emissions released by dairies ...

More than a decade ago, California helped spark a boom in biofuels — produced from plants or animal waste — with its first-of-its-kind Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The program forces carbon-intensive ...