Every child learns at a very young age that sheep go “baaa,” but much less appreciated is how much they burp too.
In fact, sheep are among the world’s most prolific belchers — spewing a collective seven million tonnes of planet-warming methane into the atmosphere every year.
Reducing the greenhouse gas footprint of the world’s agricultural sector is one of the key aims of the UN Climate Summit, COP28, which is now underway in Dubai — and some important work going into that is happening at farms around southern England this fall and winter.
Teams of British researchers are rounding up as many of
