Making floors for homes from the waste product gains credibility with researchers. Omar Faruk, a post-doctoral assistant at Michigan State University, holds dried manure, left, that is processed into ...

DETROIT – Home-buyers of tomorrow could find themselves walking across floors made from manure. That’s no cow pie-in-the-sky dream, according to researchers at Michigan State University and the U.S.

MADISON, Wis. — Pollution stinks. So does cow manure. And Dane County officials say that unprocessed manure leads to pollution in local lakes. Between January and March, over half of the phosphorus ...

HP Wednesday said its research arm, HP Labs, has shown how manure from 10,000 dairy cows could power a 1-megawatt data center with power to spare for the rest of the farm’s own needs. This is ...

University of Minnesota Prof. Roger Ruan said manure digesters have long been used in the sustainability-conscious European Union. Rather than applying cow manure onto fields, dairy farmers can use ...

Cow power — manure — seen as part of climate change strategy Capturing methane from manure can reduce pollution and save energy, but technology can be tricky and too expensive to make money.

At barn No. 5 at the Larson Dairy farm just north of Lake Okeechobee, a line of cows pump out milk bound for grocery stores shelves and family refrigerators across Florida. Being cows, they are also ...

PIXLEY, Calif. (AP) — The stench of cow feces, urine and ammonia forces residents to keep windows and doors closed in parts of California’s farming country. Some people constantly run air purifiers at ...

Government subsidies helped dairy farmers generate electricity from cow manure, but the novelty is wearing off as utilities pay next to nothing to put it on the grid. This story is the first of three ...