Inside every cow’s stomach lives a teeming world of single-celled organisms, and one of them has been hiding a secret. A ...

Matthias Hess, with the UC Davis Department of Animal Science, and researchers at UC Berkeley, have identified which microbes in a cow's gut could help reduce methane. It brings them a step closer to ...

Cows are a major source of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide and a significant driver of climate change. Nevada has about 435,000 cattle, including more than 30,000 dairy ...

Cattle are responsible for a staggering share of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, with enteric fermentation alone ...

TARGET AND WALMART WILL ALL BE CLOSED. UC DAVIS IS WORKING TO REDUCE METHANE EMISSIONS. LIVESTOCK NATURALLY PRODUCES IT. METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN EXPLAINS WHY RESEARCHERS ARE STARTING WITH A COWS ...

When cows burp, they send a substantial amount of methane gas into the air, which makes them a leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. According to research published in the journal Science, ...

A newly discovered organelle may hold the key to how much methane cattle burp out. The organelle doesn’t belong to cows. It’s part of fuzzy single-celled protozoa called ciliates. The microbes live in ...

Illinois is a top agricultural state, generating billions of dollars annually, but even where stalks of corn and acres of soybean vastly outnumber its 400,000 head of cattle, cows raised for beef and ...

The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crothers started up a ...