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Livestock

Top Climate Scientists Accuse the Livestock Industry of Pushing Fuzzy Math to Downplay Its Climate Warming Emissions

An alternative emissions-calculating methodology underpins revised, less ambitious methane-reduction targets.

By Georgina Gustin

Dairy cows at a farm in northern Germany on July 2, 2025. Credit: Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images
The JBS meat packing plant in Greeley, Colo. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Major Livestock and Animal Agriculture Companies Are Making Climate Promises They Aren’t Keeping

By Georgina Gustin

A bison herd roams the American Prairie at sunset. Credit: Amy Toensing/Getty Images

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

By Blaine Harden

Soybeans are harvested at a farm in Montividiu, Goias, Brazil. Credit: Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images

Grasslands and Wetlands Are Being Gobbled Up By Agriculture, Mostly Livestock

By Georgina Gustin

Cattle are seen at a dairy farm in Porterville, Calif. Credit: David Swanson/AFP via Getty Images

California Explores First-Time Regulation on Dairy Methane Emissions

By Blanca Begert

Cattle graze on a ranch in Lander County, Nevada. Credit: Jim West/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Are Declining Stocking Rates Underexplored By Scientists?

By Jake Bolster

A cyclist passes a landfill, a known emitter of Methane, on Jan. 21 in Barisal, Bangladesh. Credit: Niamul Rifat/Anadolu via Getty Images

International Effort to Curb Emissions of a Climate Super Pollutant Falls Short, UN Report Reveals

By Phil McKenna

A view of a hog farm in eastern North Carolina after Hurricane Matthew flooded the region in 2016. Credit: Rick Dove

N.C. Supreme Court Says State Regulators Erred on CAFO Permits

By Lisa Sorg

Employees walk past the JBS plant in Marshalltown, Iowa. A new report lists the Brazilian meat giant as a top five greenhouse gas emitter. Credit: KC McGinnis/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Climate-Warming Methane Emissions from the World’s Biggest Livestock Companies Are Bigger Than From Major Oil and Gas Companies

By Georgina Gustin

Can Pollution From Industrial Animal Agriculture Be Controlled?

ICN Sunday Morning

In the image, the sky is dramatically blue with interesting clouds above the manure and fields

Iowa Agriculture Runs on 110 Billion Pounds of Manure, at a Cost to Its Water

By Anika Jane Beamer

A tractor pulls a machine for composting cow manure at a dairy farm in Fort Morgan, Colo. Credit: Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images

A Byproduct of Manure Runoff Is Polluting Drinking Water in Thousands of US Communities, According to a New Report

By Georgina Gustin

A herd of beef cattle stands in a feedlot in Quemado, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago

By Georgina Gustin

Workers perform milking operations at a dairy farm in San Joaquin Valley, Calif. Credit: Ed Young/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Rise in Avian Flu Cases Amplifies Concerns About Consolidation in Agriculture

By Georgina Gustin

A young cow grazes near a stack of hay at KazBeef's cow-calf operation near the village of Mamay, Kazakhstan.

Turning Kazakhstan Into a Beef-Producing Machine, the American Way

Story and photos by Georgina Gustin

Cows graze on pastureland in Caernarvon Township, Pa. Credit: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Returning Grazing Land to Native Forests Would Yield Big Climate Benefits

By Georgina Gustin

Hudson Johnson passes hay to Kristen Kiker, as she prepares to tow it across floodwaters with a paddleboard to feed horses and goats on a nearby farm in Black Mountain, N.C., on Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Hurricane Helene Prompts Questions About Raising Animals in Increasingly Vulnerable Places

By Georgina Gustin

Dairy cows are lined up on a farm contracted by the Dairy Farmers of America in Greeley, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Financing of Meat and Dairy Giants Grows Thanks to Big American Banks and Investors

By Georgina Gustin

An open-pit lagoon is filled with waste from a hog farm in Duplin County, North Carolina. Credit: Courtesy of The Smell of Money

Blue Cross of North Carolina Decided Against an Employee Screening of a Documentary That Links the State’s Massive Hog Farms to Public Health Ills

By Lisa Sorg

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