Cows are a gassy bunch. As they stand in fields and munch on grass, the animals burp and fart—and, in doing so, they release ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. The ...

GATTON, Australia To hear Athol Klieve tell it, a key to reducing Australia’s enormous carbon emissions is to make a cow more like this country’s iconic animal the kangaroo. Both animals are ...

The New Zealand government has announced it will be reversing a tax on farmers - known as a burping tax. Livestock like cows and sheep emit a lot of methane when they burp or fart. Methane is a ...

ADDING a dash of fish oil to animal fodder could help farmers stifle the greenhouse gases wafting from their farmyards. Switching animals from regular feed onto a diet of fishy fodder cut the amount ...

Earlier this year, a cat named Burp arrived at NAWS Humane Society. He’d been living on the streets as a stray when a Good Samaritan noticed he looked really beat up and brought him into the shelter.