Dairy methane digesters cut emissions on farms, but rare leaks can release powerful bursts that may offset their climate benefits.

Anaerobic digesters converting manure to biogas reduce methane emissions from livestock, but incentives for them have ...

A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But ...

The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crothers started up a ...

Dairy digester on a Central Valley farm helping to reduce methane emissions. Credit: Chelsea Preble/UC Berkeley Methane is more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide at warming the atmosphere over ...

Explore the controversy around the manure digester pollution in Washington state and its impact on local communities.

Maas Energy Works dairy digester at Legacy Ranch in Pixley, Calif. First of a two-part series on renewable natural gas in the agricultural sector. Renewable natural gas, or methane from non-fossil ...

The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crotherses started up a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is over 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide when trapping heat over a 20-year period.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of California’s biggest sources of methane pollution — its massive dairy industry — operates almost entirely without ...

A giant, balloon-like tarp stretches over a lagoon of manure on a Central Valley dairy farm, concealing a quiet but remarkable transformation. Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured ...

The farm that Alice and Caleb Crothers inherited in 2015 was, like many dairy farms nationwide, struggling — but now, cow manure is helping to keep it going. Last fall, the Crothers started up a ...