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Cattle methane project awarded research prize

27/09/2017

Researchers looking into ways to minimise methane emissions from cows have been awarded the top prize from journal PLOS Genetics, the 2017 PLOS Research Prize. Cattle’s production of methane contributes significantly to greenhouse gases and global warming, and the team from Scotland’s Rural College and the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen...

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