Livestock farming produces large quantities of greenhouse gases, especially methane, which is particularly harmful to the climate. Among other things, it escapes during the storage of animal excrement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A South West farm has been fined thousands of pounds for polluting waterways with two slurry spills. JD Spencer Farm Partnership, ...

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Interest is growing in farm-scale anaerobic digesters, using slurry as a feedstock, driven by the need to reduce manufactured inputs – for economic and environmental reasons – and the cost of energy.

The death of an eight-year old boy who became overcome by slurry fumes at a County Antrim farm has once again highlighted how dangerous working on farms can be. Robert Christie had been helping his 52 ...

Three Dorset farm companies have paid a total of £33,500 to environment charities after an investigation found they failed to store slurry correctly. The Environment Agency said in two of the three ...

A dairy farm in Dorset has been fined £6,000 and ordered to pay costs of £10,158.50 after cattle slurry was found to be polluting a nearby river. The owners of Manor Farm Dairy, in Hilfield, ...

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A Shropshire farmer has been fined £5,000 after admitting slurry from his farm could have leaked into a nearby river. A Shropshire farmer has been fined £5,000 after admitting slurry from his farm ...

I WAS distressed to read about the discharge of fish-farm slurry as described by Ian Wilson (April 7). My company operates a salmon hatchery in Argyll and we have a waste water treatment system to ...

Phosphate loss into water during wet weather had been identified earlier, leading to chemistry sampling to determine if ...