A newly discovered organelle may hold the key to how much methane cattle burp out. The organelle doesn’t belong to cows. It’s part of fuzzy single-celled protozoa called ciliates. The microbes live in ...

When cows burp, they send a substantial amount of methane gas into the air, which makes them a leading contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. According to research published in the journal Science, ...

Matthias Hess, with the UC Davis Department of Animal Science, and researchers at UC Berkeley, have identified which microbes in a cow's gut could help reduce methane. It brings them a step closer to ...