The Shawshank Redemption may be a work of fiction, but one poignant (and apparently poop-filled) scene held a certain aura of authenticity. According to director Frank Darabont, the “glorious moment” ...

How many homes could be heated by cow muck? It is not a question I have thought about before, but as Britain searches for sustainable sources of heat, many farmers are looking, well, right under their ...

By Alejandro Lazo | CalMatters 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. More than a decade ...

Approximately a third of all anthropogenic methane is emitted by ruminant livestock. These animals get nutrients through fermenting food in four-chambered stomachs found in cows, sheep, and goats.

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 ...

On a rural road in Kansas, surrounded by farm fields, a startup called Vaulted Deep is pioneering a new type of carbon removal: injecting animal manure and sewage sludge 1,000 feet underground to ...

A particularly impressive red alga has already shown great promise in dramatically reducing the alarming levels of methane gas produced by a cow's enteric digestive system. Now, a team of scientists ...