Earlier this year, a cat named Burp arrived at NAWS Humane Society. He’d been living on the streets as a stray when a Good Samaritan noticed he looked really beat up and brought him into the shelter.

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 ...

COVENTRY, Vt. – Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows’ diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp – dairy ...

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 ...

GATTON, Australia To hear Athol Klieve tell it, a key to reducing Australia’s enormous carbon emissions is to make a cow more like this country’s iconic animal the kangaroo. Both animals are ...

Cows are a gassy bunch. As they stand in fields and munch on grass, the animals burp and fart—and, in doing so, they release ...

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 ...

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 ...

COVENTRY, Vt. – Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp — dairy ...

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 ...