Blame the Cows

Author photo Written by Shirley Siluk Gregory
Published on January 21st, 2008
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Posted in ecoscraps

Jersey cow (Photo by Man vyi)

The Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences has just received $590,000 to support research into how diet affects a cow’s methane emissions. Livestock are blamed for 28 percent of the world’s human-caused emissions of methane, a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Photo courtesy of Man vyi at Wikimedia Commons

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    John said on January 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 am

    interesting article BUT please please change your colours, i had to zoom in and invert the colours to be able to see what it says.

    Thanks!

  2. 2
    Author photo Shirley Siluk Gregory said on January 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 am

    Thanks, John. I’ve passed along your comment to our tech people, and they’re checking it out.

  3. 3
    linzi said on September 23rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm

    i heard that cows burp out the c02 gas on qi last night on tv is this true

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