When people think about sources of greenhouse gas emissions, they think of oil refineries, smokestacks and trucks spewing out thick black smoke. They don't usually think of cows.
Environment
Mar 4, 2011
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Since the evolution of dogs from wolves tens of thousands of years ago, they have been selectively bred for various roles as guards, hunters, workers and companions. But dogs are not the only animal humans have domesticated, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 8, 2016
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working out of Yale University has found that soil treated with cow manure from cows that never received antibiotics, still had more resistant bacteria in it than soil treated with nonorganic ...
Spain, France and other western European nations sweltered over the weekend under a blistering June heatwave that has sparked forest fires and concerns such early summer blasts of hot weather will now become the norm.
Environment
Jun 18, 2022
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Daily infusions with a chemical commonly associated with feelings of happiness were shown to increase calcium levels in the blood of Holstein cows and the milk of Jersey cows that had just given birth. The results, published ...
Other
Jul 15, 2016
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The addition of 3-Nitrooxypropanol to the feed of dairy cows reduced their enteric methane emissions by about 25% in a recently published study—one in a series of Penn State studies of the investigational substance in the ...
Ecology
Feb 24, 2020
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Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have made a discovery that may explain how prion diseases, like chronic wasting disease and mad cow disease, adapt in order to spread between various types of animals.
Biochemistry
Mar 11, 2013
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(AP) -- Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp - dairy cows' contribution to global ...
Environment
Jun 21, 2009
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Farmers might finally be able to answer the question: How now brown cow?
Plants & Animals
Dec 18, 2019
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About 10 million years into the current Cenozoic Era, or roughly 56 million years ago, during a climate that was hot and wet, two groups of mammals moved from land to water. These were the cetaceans, which include whales, ...
Archaeology
Aug 25, 2014
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