Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cow’s amazing ability to sustain itself by eating nothing but grass is one of the marvels of nature, but it comes at a cost.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists are trying to develop a vaccine that will reduce the amount of methane-producing microbes in cows’ stomachs The fight ...

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 ...

A Jersey cow feeds in a field on the Francis Thicke organic dairy farm in Fairfield, Iowa, May 8, 2018. Let’s clear the air about cow farts. In the climate-change debate, some policy makers seem to be ...

Vermont-based ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's launched a pilot to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at dairy farms by getting cows to stop burping and farting. Getty Images The Vermont-based ice cream ...

Assemblyman Andrew Goodell, R-Jamestown, speaks on the Assembly floor earlier this week during debate of a NYSERDA program to replace lithium-ion batteries at no cost to users or manufacturers.

The cow’s amazing ability to sustain itself by eating nothing but grass is one of the marvels of nature, but it comes at a cost. As grass ferments in the rumen — one of four compartments in the animal ...