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This counterintuitive technology fights climate change by making more carbon dioxide

Scientists are trying to pull methane from thin air to make CO2. It’s a surprisingly good idea.

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California wants farms to capture methane from cow manure. Neighbors say it’s killing them

California — the nation’s leading dairy-producing state — is home to 1.7 million milk cows, which belch and excrete copious amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas capable of warming the atmosphere 80 times more than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period.

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Cows produce a lot of methane. Can we reduce that waste?

There are around 1.5 billion cows on the planet being raised as livestock for things like meat and dairy — and they’re a climate problem we’ve struggled to solve.

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Abattoirs overwhelmed as farmers offload livestock before big dry begins

Wait times for farmers seeking to offload livestock to feedlots and abattoirs are increasing from weeks to months in some areas, putting further strain on producers facing a grim summer outlook.

Watch: Can seaweed be a solution to help curb climate change?

Watch: Can seaweed be a solution to help curb climate change?

Five years ago, Sam Elsom shocked his friends and family when he quit his job as a fashion designer to set up a seaweed farm in Tasmania, inspired by the potential of a special strain to radically reduce methane emissions in livestock.

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Pennsylvania research targets cow burp emissions

The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research will spend $750,000 to support one man’s quest to lower enteric emissions, also known as the amount of methane cows expel when they burp.
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Pig cooling pads and weather forecasts for cows are high-tech ways to make meat in a warming world

More than a third of the heat-trapping gases cooking the planet come from growing and raising food, but millions of cattle, pigs and other animals get to stay cool in the United States and the rest of the developed world.
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