In California’s Central Valley, a gas utility is harvesting methane from manure on cow feedlots. Critics worry the push toward biogas will only further entrench two polluting industries. On days when ...

Cow burps and manure emit the potent planet-warming gas, which over a shorter period is much more powerful than carbon dioxide. In recent decades, digesters that convert manure and other organic waste ...

Learn how a new method of manufacturing technology could help turn cow manure into one of the most used materials on Earth. It might not sound glamorous, but cow manure could soon be the unlikely hero ...

At first glance, Lent Hill Dairy Farm in Steuben County, New York, looks like most other industrial dairies. There are red buildings that house some 4,000 cows, a staggering manure pit and two ...

Manure is often used as fertilizer, but what if it could pick up a second application before heading to the fields? A dairy farm in New England is experimenting with turning tons of cow manure into ...

A new technique to extract tiny cellulose strands from cow dung and turn them into manufacturing-grade cellulose, currently used to make everything from surgical masks to food packaging, has been ...

Government subsidies helped dairy farmers generate electricity from cow manure, but the novelty is wearing off as utilities pay next to nothing to put it on the grid. This story is the first of three ...

The study, published in The Journal of Cleaner Production, describes the new ‘pressurised spinning’ innovation and its potential to create cellulose materials more cheaply and cleanly than some ...