A new study shows that systems designed to capture methane from cow manure, called dairy digesters, are highly effective. But on the rare occasions they fail, the leaks are large enough to offset ...

A new study from the University of California, Riverside offers a nuanced assessment of dairy manure digesters, finding the systems significantly reduce methane emissions overall but can lose much of ...

A Danish company’s plans to turn cow manure into renewable energy in Minnesota and Wisconsin’s dairy country have tanked, at least for now. Nature Energy planned to build several large-scale anaerobic ...

Dickinson College Farm has started a methane digester that will annually divert 115 tons of cafeteria waste and turn manure ...

Methane, a potent climate-warming gas, is being captured and cleaned instead of released into the atmosphere. A new study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside shows the ...

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.

Rather than wait on the shaky timeline of offshore wind production, the state should invest in developing these digesters to reach its climate goals. Anaerobic digesters could help state cut methane ...

Methane digesters are being promoted to reduce animal waste and create energy on farms, including CAFOS (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations). Sounds like a great idea, right? However, the real ...