Foot in mouth

When the commons vanish

Cattle pollute San Joaquin air

Dairies in the US town will need air-operating permits

Cattle burps

Methane emissions from Indian livestock lower than estimated

Cattle slaughter banned

Nio wrecks the US

Texas fires: With over 1 million acres of grassland burned, cattle ranchers face struggles ahead to find and feed their herds

A combination of high temperature, strong winds, low humidity and invasive species made the fires spread fast and harder to control 

India now has 212 indigenous livestock breeds after ICAR-NBAGR registers 10 new ones

The 10 new breeds included three new cattle, one buffalo, three goats and three pigs

When bulls light bulbs

Bull power can be used to generate electricity, as an experiment conducted in Gujarat demonstrates

Interest in indigenous cattle breeds like the Pulikulam is reviving: Karthikeya Sivasenapathy

Down To Earth speaks to the head of the environment wing of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam about the Pulikulam cattle breed of Tamil Nadu

Problems of livestock economy and growing menace of stray cattle

Several states governed by the BJP enacted strong laws against cow slaughter. But we talk less about its effect on agriculture and rural economy

Cloned from milk

Breed apart

Animal conservation practices should be rethought

India develops PPR vaccine

Against sheep and goat plague

Importing cattle growth hormone hits snags

A growth hormone that the National Dairy Development Board seeks to import because it can increase milk yield by as much as 30 per cent, has run …

Now cattle feel the heat

Climate change affects breeding patterns of cows in the UK

BST side-effects denied

What's eating the grasslands?

Overgrazing is just the tip of the iceberg.The real culprit is mismanagement

Treasures in grass

India has a huge variety of grasses. But the wealth is being destroyed

In Court

Bytes

A cattle crisis

The food-and-mouth disease spreads panic across the world and raises several questions about livestock culling

‘Ethnoveterinary medicines can be used as preventives and curatives’

Down To Earth spoke to MNB Nair from the Center for Ethno-Veterinary Science and Practice, The University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences …

Lumpy skin disease outbreak: Indigenous vaccine still awaits emergency-use clearance

Launched a month ago; Concerns over efficacy, production causing delay 

Global madness

The whole world is at risk of the mad cow disease, says WHO