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Shelter Cat Who 'Hates Being Alone' Begs Volunteer Not To Return Him To Kennel

Earlier this year, a cat named Burp arrived at NAWS Humane Society. He’d been living on the streets as a stray when a Good Samaritan noticed he looked really beat up and brought him into the shelter.
The New York Times

Trying to Stop Cattle Burps From Heating Up Planet

GATTON, Australia To hear Athol Klieve tell it, a key to reducing Australia’s enormous carbon emissions is to make a cow more like this country’s iconic animal the kangaroo. Both animals are ...
Washington Times

New Zealand proposes taxes on animal burping, peeing

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. The ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Eating Seaweed Could Make Cows Less Gassy, Slashing Methane Emissions From Grazing by Nearly 40 Percent

Cows are a gassy bunch. As they stand in fields and munch on grass, the animals burp and fart—and, in doing so, they release ...
Xinhuanet

Across China: Chinese zoologists monitor cattle burps to track methane emissions

CHANGSHA, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- Can monitoring burps help fight climate change? Chinese zoologists have recently developed a system that estimates methane emissions from cattle and sheep by tracking ...
New Scientist

Burping animals clean up their act on a fishy diet

ADDING a dash of fish oil to animal fodder could help farmers stifle the greenhouse gases wafting from their farmyards. Switching animals from regular feed onto a diet of fishy fodder cut the amount ...
Digital Journal

New Zealand farmers protest livestock ‘burp and fart’ tax

Protestors against the government's plans to tax emissions from farm animals gather outside New Zealand's parliament in Wellington on Thursday - Copyright AFP Marty ...