Seaing the light: start-up set to weed out cows’ climate-warming burps

Adding seaweed supplements to the diet of cows on a Swedish beef farm cut methane emissions by more than 80%

07 February 2022 - 19:46 By Rafaela Lindeberg

Swedish start-up Volta Greentech is gearing up to build a full-scale factory to produce seaweed supplements to reduce climate-warming emissions from cattle. ..

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