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 ...

Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's is working on editing its cows' diets in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from flatulence. Last month, the company announced a new project to slash ...

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 ...

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 ...

Make all the jokes you want, but the methane emitted in the form of cow burps and farts is actually a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. That could soon change, however, thanks to bacteria ...

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.

Scientists have long known that animals' farts and poop contribute to global warming but findings of a new study have suggested that researchers may have underestimated the impact of methane emissions ...