Bezos Puts Money Into Breeding More Climate-Friendly Cows

The Bezos Earth Fund is putting money into research programs to breed climate-smart cattle as part of efforts to curb the environmental impact of livestock.

The Jeff Bezos-backed philanthropic organization is funding $19 million for an initiative to help identify genetic traits in low-methane emission cattle and sheep, it said Tuesday. The research, spread across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Oceania, will involve scanning more than 100,000 animals to generate data to help predict methane-emitting traits, which will be used for breeding.

“We’re going to measure their emissions, we’re going to measure their genetics, we’re going to measure the ...