This can be sold off as a product, or used directly to run specially tailored engines. The solid remainder of the waste is used as fertilizer. Cow manure is washed out as a slurry, and kept in covered ...

A Norwegian technology company has found a way to stop livestock slurry from releasing methane – by zapping it with artificial lightning. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas emitted from sources ...

Cecilia Njambi at her farm in Lashau area of Ndaragwa Sub-county, Nyandarua. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard] Cecilia Njambi cannot tell the number of trees she felled to provide charcoal and firewood for ...

MOSCOW, Idaho | Drive by a dairy and take a good whiff. Anyone in the industry will say “that’s the smell of money.” Idaho is home to more than a million dairy cows, and each cow produces 100 to 150 ...

Imagine 7,000 gallons of cow manure. It smells. Brett Reinford’s dairy farm in Central Pennsylvania has 700 cows, and that’s how much manure those cows squeeze out every day. “We had gotten complaints ...

India is gearing up to use cow dung to power vehicles in a move officials say will cut emissions, create rural jobs, and turn a waste problem into an energy source. The plan, launched in Uttar Pradesh ...