According to the data published by the International Energy Agency earlier this year, India is the third largest emitter of methane. Studie...

Denmark introduces a groundbreaking tax on cow and pig emissions. The tax aims to reduce methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Farmers will rec...

The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University has found that Bihar can significantly reduce greenhou...

Ensuring that environmental and health costs are fully priced into emissions-intensive foods made from animals would curb consumer demand f...

Climate advocacy groups are pushing world governments at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai to commit to cutting global food sector emis...

The climate footprint of the food industry accounts for nearly a third of global greenhouses gases. Livestock releases potent methane and m...

Rumin8, an Australian startup, is developing a dietary supplement that inhibits methane production by using red seaweed as a source of synt...

Agriculture accounts for close to 80% of total nitrous oxide emissions, mainly generated from the application of synthetic nitrogen fertili...

Globally, 32% of anthropogenic methane emission is from livestock; but since the Indian diet is primarily plant-based, our emission reducti...

At the COP26 global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, world leaders on Tuesday pledged to stop deforestation by the end of the decad...

Scientists have worked for years to reduce methane emissions from cattle burps by changing what cattle eat, or through research on vaccines...

Small farmers who produce the bulk of food in developing countries are some of the most vulnerable to changes in climate and need help adap...

Meat consumption has zoomed up from 70 million tons in 1961 to 278 million tons in 2009 a 300% increase in 50 years.

One way of cutting emissions would be to reduce this meat consumption. Perhaps a beginning could be made by having a few days on which peop...

Religious taboos are one aspect but there is also a very strong environmental angle for not eating beef.

Cattle require on average 28 times more land and 11 times more irrigation water are responsible for releasing five times more greenhouse ga...

That cattle herd sitting in the middle of the road, contently chewing away as you honk, is not just traffic nuisance.