Denmark's Tax Commission is considering putting a tax on farmers' greenhouse gas emissions, which they reckon to be approximately 4 tons per cow per year (that's more than an average passenger car, which they say emits approximately 2.7 tons). What's a poor farmer to do?......

Can’t afford a Prius or Solar system for you home? There is another, basically free, way you can do even more to do your part to help reduce greenhouse emissions and lower your carbon footprint in a big way - Stop eating beef. The constant belching and flatulence from cattle produces enormous ...

Being the world's largest beef producer with 55 million cows, Argentinian scientists tested claims about bovines being one of the worst polluters on the planet thanks to the methane they produce. To......

Image from Reuters/Marcos Brindicci Cow flatulence and its link to climate change has been a favorite topic for us to cover at TreeHugger. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that we'd jump on a Reuters story describing the climatic implications of cow burps. Researchers in Argentina have bee...

Image from Reuters/Marcos Brindicci Cow flatulence and its link to climate change has been a favorite topic for us to cover at TreeHugger. So it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that we'd jump on a Reuters story describing the climatic implications of cow burps. Researchers in Argentina have bee...

Scientists are examining cow farts and burps in a novel bid to combat global warming.The world's 'cow nation' is responsible for 4% of greenhouse gases, its claimed. Cows spend their days chewing grass and happily... read more...

Speigel: Researchers have found alarming evidence that the frozen Arctic floor has started to thaw and release long-stored methane gas. The results could be a catastrophic warming of the earth, since methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. But can the methane also be used as...

Speigel: Researchers have found alarming evidence that the frozen Arctic floor has started to thaw and release long-stored methane gas. The results could be a catastrophic warming of the earth, since methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. But can the methane also be used as...

Climate scientists have long warned methane hydrates [search] stored in the Arctic ocean floor -- hard clumps of frozen ice and methane at high pressure -- could become unstable due to global heating. This would free massive amounts of the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere. Researche...

Galactic_grub writes "The detection of planet HD 189733b is in some ways just another small victory for extra-solar planetary science. It is too hot for there to be everything 'alive'. Just the same, someplace on the planet are trace amounts of the gas methane. The fact that the element was detected...