Burping Cows Try New Diet
                                    
                                        
                                        SEP 16, 2020
                                    
                                
                            
                            
                                
                                    Adding seaweed to cows’ diets could help reduce methane production and help curb climate change.
                                
                            
                            
                                
                            
                            
                            
                            
                                
                                    Burping Cows Try New Diet
    
        (Inside Science) -- Scientists have found that when cows digest a certain species of red algae seaweed, called Asparagopsis taxiformis, it creates a compound that could limit the production of methane -- a powerful greenhouse gas that is 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
When it comes to cattle-related emissions, burping cows pack the most punch, accounting for roughly 95% of the methane released into the environment.
