Beil, L. (2015, November 18). Getting creative to cut methane from cows. Retrieved November 20, 2015, from

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/getting-creative-cut-methane-cows

Cows spend their days grazing and eating and do not have many other obligations. So to test what gases a cow omits and to see their impact on the atmosphere, researchers at the Lacombe Research Centre have begun to track the cows’ waste into the sky. The cows are tracked, “Through a transponder clipped to the ear of each cow, scientists record when a cow sticks her head into a bin of tasty feed pellets. As she eats, a solar-powered fume hood above captures her exhalations. Laser beams surround the pasture, reading gases in the atmosphere” (Beil, 2015). Scientist have found that the gas mainly released by cows methane, which has over the years contributed to climate change and has a negative effect on the atmosphere. This discovery has scientists scrambling to figure out a solution for this waste and how to manage the cows to decrease their methane production.

After reading this article, I was shocked that cows’ gas waste pollutes the atmosphere and think it is going to be difficult to find a solution to reduce this issue. This article has environmental science relevance because it explains how cows pollute and the issue that scientists are stumped on and are struggling to find a way to reduce the methane emissions.