Expansive surface area of a hippo’s stomach; but not a multi-chambered ruminant gut. Cervical air sacs of a Turquoise-fronted Amazon parrot. Heart and rather complex pulmonary system of a varanid lizard. It’s pharynx time: Keratinous spines of a sea turtle’s throat. All the better to ...
Burger King is making its cows fart and burp less to reduce their methane emissions and slow climate change. Here's how the science works.
Bioenergy is increasingly used to help meet greenhouse gas (GHG) and renewable energy targets. However, bioenergy’s sustainability has been questione
The need for a One Health approach that integrates wildlife, human, and domestic animal health into a single framework is now widely recognised [1] and has gained further attention due to the recent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic [2]. In addition to their relevance as a source of pathogens that may...
The next greatest priority is to convert food waste into animal feed, which is preferable to composting, anaerobic digestion to produce biogas, and disposal in landfills [27]. Food waste has been fed to pigs in every country for centuries, but since 2001 it has been banned in the European ...
Corn silage, however, has been shown to cause major land-use-related impacts, since the crop is cultivated purely for bioenergy production [105]. Lansche and Müller [106] pointed out that using cattle manure for anaerobic digestion prevents emissions from the on-farm storage of manure. However...