Scientists in New Zealand are breeding sheep to fart and burp less to curb climate-devastating greenhouse gas emissions. Agricultural researchers near Christchurch are breaking ground on breaking wind ...

On a sunny spring day at Rob and Jo Hodgkins’ farm in southern England, sheep were being led, one by one, into metal boxes resembling oversized washing machines. Each of the 120 animals stayed in the ...

CHANGSHA, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Can monitoring burps help fight climate change? Chinese zoologists have recently developed a system that estimates methane emissions from cattle and sheep by tracking ...

Stopping sheep from burping methane into the atmosphere may be trickier than first thought, say Australian scientists. It seems the ability of a vaccine to knock out their methane-producing microbes ...

A steady diet of hay, wheat straw and rice straw gives sheep gas—the burping kind. While sheep and other ruminants don't seem to mind about manners, there is concern over these burps containing ...

The government of New Zealand has proposed a novel way of fighting climate change: charging farmers for the burps, farts and waste of farm animals. New Zealand is a progressive, eco-friendly country, ...

Every child learns at a very young age that sheep go "baaa," but much less appreciated is how much they burp too. In fact, sheep are among the world's most prolific belchers — spewing a collective ...

Australian scientists have said they are hoping to breed sheep that burp less as part of efforts to tackle climate change. The scientists have been trying to identify a genetic link that causes some ...

GLEN INNES, Australia, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Australian scientists say they're confident sheep can be selectively bred to burp less methane -- a greenhouse gas emission. Farming in Australia produces about ...

No, this isn’t the Onion. Plans for a tax on cow and sheep burps have been revealed in New Zealand. The BBC reports how—as New Zealand is home to about 10 million cows and 26 million sheep in ...