A high school in Murehwa is exploring an innovative way to turn waste into wealth by commercialising liquid organic fertiliser derived from its biogas system. St Paul’s Musami Mission High School is ...

When fuel ran out during the second world war, some farmers in Germany and France made their own fuel by covering cisterns of manure and capturing the methane that was generated. Now, governments are ...

Your digestive system is responsible for taking all the food that you eat and breaking it down into the macronutrients, vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients that your body needs to thrive.

A biogas industry group says surging demand for electricity creates opportunities for waste-to-energy projects. The data center boom may soon breathe new life into manure-to-energy projects, a trade ...

Five years after the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) guaranteed more than $100 million to what’s billed as the “world’s largest manure biogas project”, the loans are in delinquency, which, along ...

A Salem renewable energy company hopes to build New England’s largest biogas anaerobic digester in Londonderry near the Stonyfield factory, which will help reduce organic waste ending up in landfills ...

After years of relying on voluntary grant and incentive programs to bring down a potent climate pollutant from dairy and livestock operations, California is looking into developing a rule to require ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pausing a loan program aimed at promoting anaerobic digesters — many of which are issued for large-scale farms that turn animal waste into gas — to ...

Citing high delinquency rates and other factors, the Agriculture Department has put a 90-day hold on loan guarantees for projects involving biodigesters and controlled environment agriculture, ...

Biogas made from dairy and pig manure has long been an energy source non grata for environmental groups across the country. The fuel is touted by agribusiness, utilities and renewable natural gas ...

In much of rural Wisconsin, manure is everywhere. It’s in the ground, the drinking water, and the air communities breathe. The state is home to more than 300 concentrated animal-feeding operation s, ...

Anaerobic digestion is widely used around the world to treat organic waste while producing biogas, a renewable energy source that can replace fossil fuels. Yet one persistent problem continues to ...