There’s no sign that methane emissions are declining globally. With scientists warning of dangerous feedback loops, where global warming triggers large stores of methane to be released from underneath ...

The federal government’s pause on new loans for anaerobic digesters, the controversial method of converting animal manure from large-scale feeding operations into biogas, will now extend through the ...

It doesn’t take much to get a steer’s attention. When Paulo de Meo Filho wants them to eat, all he has to do is stir their feed and they’ll trot over for a few bites. Getting the steers to eat is ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I was surprised and disappointed that Tom Vilsack was still pushing agricultural anaerobic digesters as ...

FOWLER, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every detail was under review after an employee of the National Raisin Company in Fowler was found dead Friday morning, prompting a multi-agency response and a workplace ...

A proposal to build a mega-manure digester in a small Washington state community is sparking uproar among citizens who say the project to convert waste from dairy cows into fuel will add to the region ...

When fuel ran out during the second world war, some farmers in Germany and France made their own fuel by covering cisterns of manure and capturing the methane that was generated. Now, governments are ...

A new study from the University of California, Riverside offers a nuanced assessment of dairy manure digesters, finding the systems significantly reduce methane emissions overall but can lose much of ...

A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But on the rare occasions they fail, the leaks are large enough to offset ...

The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crotherses started up a ...

Methane emissions from wetlands are rising faster than those from industrial sources, prompting concerns about a climate feedback loop. Methane emissions from wetlands are rising faster than those ...