MONROE — It’s 193 feet long, 80 feet wide and 17 feet deep, and its belly used to be filled with milk. Now, this milk tank is holding more than 1 million gallons of another product from cows: manure.

A Japanese startup is experimenting with alternative rocket fuel options. The startup, Interstellar Technologies Inc., says it was able to kickstart a space rocket engine designed to run off ...

At barn No. 5 at the Larson Dairy farm just north of Lake Okeechobee, a line of cows pump out milk bound for grocery stores shelves and family refrigerators across Florida. Being cows, they are also ...

David Dunn is no stranger to poop jokes. In fact, for Dunn, as the manager of a program that converts cow manure into energy, they are an occupational hazard. “One [person] likened my name, Dunn, to ...

The tech giant just made a deal with Vaulted Deep, a startup that injects organic waste deep underground to store CO2.

A Japanese startup called Interstellar Technologies Inc. trumpeted in a statement that the company was able to kickstart ZERO, its space rocket engine, in a 10-second “static fire test” in Hokkaido, ...

Earth has a cow problem. Cow agriculture is one of the largest emitters of climate-warming methane to the atmosphere. But adding a type of red algae known for its methane-inhibiting properties to cow ...

More than a decade ago, California helped spark a boom in biofuels — produced from plants or animal waste — with its first-of-its-kind Low Carbon Fuel Standard. The program forces carbon-intensive ...

Two things that dairy farms have a lot of and no use for suddenly got a lot more helpful. Put them together and you can power a farm. It sounds like an incredibly smelly–and disgusting–proposition, ...

West Marin dairyman Albert Straus said this month he has come full circle in his effort to use agriculture against climate change with the addition of an all-electric feed truck to his farm fleet.

“We’re trying to show that organic dairy farming can be part of a solution to climate change.” Albert Straus, of Marin County, California, is a pioneering farmer in the sustainability movement. His ...