Scientists in New Zealand are breeding sheep to fart and burp less to curb climate-devastating greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural researchers near Christchurch are breaking ground on breaking wind ...

On a sunny spring day at Rob and Jo Hodgkins’ farm in southern England, sheep were being led, one by one, into metal boxes resembling oversized washing machines. Each of the 120 animals stayed in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The government of New Zealand has proposed a novel way of fighting climate change: charging farmers for the burps, farts and waste ...

How do you stop a cow from burping? It might sound like the start of a joke, but this is a serious matter for New Zealand scientists. And the answer could help reduce climate change. “At a farm level, ...

New Zealand on Wednesday released a draft plan to put a price on agricultural emissions in a bid to tackle one of the country’s biggest sources of greenhouse gases, belching sheep and cattle. The ...

Stopping sheep from burping methane into the atmosphere may be trickier than first thought, say Australian scientists. It seems the ability of a vaccine to knock out their methane-producing microbes ...