On Friday evening, the Pike River mine outside the South Island town of Greymouth experienced an explosion which trapped 29 […]
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TVNZ/NZPA: AgResearch to go offshore for GE clover
Some of the research into the development of genetically engineered (GE) clover which could reduce pastoral greenhouse gas emissions will […]
Continue reading3 News: NZ methane emissions extremely high
Melissa Davies writes for 3 News about New Zealand’s methane emissions, which are fives times the global average per head […]
Continue readingAgricultural emissions – the global effort to reduce them
Officials and scientists from 28 countries that have signed up to the Global Research Alliance will arrive in Wellington next […]
Continue readingNewsletter Digest: The CRI Taskforce, a sequenced methanogen, non-smoking NZ and GM
CRI Taskforce set to give its verdict The CRI Taskforce, set up by the Government to review the structure of […]
Continue readingOne step closer to livestock that burp less
Today, the first map of a rumen methanogen DNA sequence was published in the journal PLoS One, giving scientists worldwide […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Counting burps – it’s a gas
Kathy Marks of the NZ Herald reports on an Australian project in which sheep are to have their burp outputs […]
Continue readingTVNZ/Newstalk ZB: Researchers attempt to silence the lambs
Scientists all over the world are looking into strategies which would reduce the amount of methane produced by livestock. An […]
Continue readingDom Post: Scientists show methane levels up
Kiran Chug of the Dominion post reports new evidence which has shown that methane levels worldwide are on the rise […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: GM grass trial aims to cut cows’ gas
Eloise Gibson of the New Zealand Herald reports on efforts to develop and grow a new type of grass – […]
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