Beef Magazine

Making methane genetics work for cattle producers

UNL researchers are linking cattle genetics and rumen microbes to find ways to cut energy lost as methane and boost feed ...
Nature

Methane might be made by all living organisms

Chang Liu is in the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and the Department of SICU, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710061, China. Ernst and colleagues ...
Nature

A microbe that uses crude oil to make methane

A microorganism that dwells in an underground oil reservoir has been found to degrade various petroleum compounds and use them to produce methane through a previously unreported biochemical pathway.
Time

Cow Burps Have a Big Climate Impact. Solving That is Harder than You’d Think

McFadden, PhD, is an associate professor of dairy cattle biology in the Department of Animal Science at Cornell University. He studies dairy cattle nutrition and the efficiency of milk production ...
Business Wire

CH4 Global Begins Production at World's First Commercial-Scale Asparagopsis Growing Facility, Setting New Benchmark for Cost-Effective Livestock Methane Reduction

With its proprietary pond-based system, CH4 Global aims to reduce production costs by up to 90% compared to conventional methods, enabling profitable scaling of seaweed-based feed supplement that ...
FoodNavigator

Inside Danone’s methane strategy: ‘This is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow global warming’

Methane is amongst the most potent of the greenhouse gases, second only to CO2 in contributing to global warming in recent history. Agriculture and livestock activities are a major contributor, with ...
Scientific American

Wetlands Made Salty by Rising Seas Produce More Heat-Trapping Methane

CLIMATEWIRE | Sea-level rise could cause some coastal wetlands to release huge quantities of methane gas, according to a new study that challenges how scientists view the relationship between salinity ...