Livestock production is the important source of gaseous emissions (NH_3 and greenhouse gases) from agriculture. Storage of animal manure is reported to be an important agricultural source of the environmentally harmful gases. Generally, ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions from stored animal manure can be affected by environmental factors (temperature and wind speed) and storage stacking configuration. Most studies have focused on the emission of ammonia and greenhouse gases from slurry during storage. However, information of gaseous emissions from solid manure stored is limited. Material covering is expected to be an effective method to reduce gaseous emissions from the stored manure. Thus, two experiments were set up to study gaseous emissions during storage of the solid cattle manure, and the effect of covering depth (1, 3 and 5 cm) and two different covering materials (sawdust and straw) on emissions of ammonia and greenhouse gases. Polyvinylchloride cylindrical (30 cm in diameter and 90 cm in height) static vessels were designed and built to measure ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions in the laboratory experiment. Fresh cattle manure was collected from practicing farm of Rongchang Campus of Southwest University in Chongqing. After fully mixed, manure was filled into 12 barrels (24.2 cm in diameter and 15 cm in height). Barrels were enveloped by static vessels while measuring gaseous emissions. The stacking process commenced on May 29, 2014, and was measured for 49 days. In Experiment 1, the emissions of NH_3, CH_4, N_2O and CO_2 from an uncovered and three sawdust-covering heaps of solid cattle manure were compared. Considering that the stacking of solid manure was only 10 cm height (about 4 kg), sawdust covering depths of 1, 3 and 5 cm were selected. In Experiment 2, the emissions of NH_3, CH_4, N_2O and CO_2 were quantified using solid cattle manure (about 10 kg, 25cm stacking height) covered with sawdust (2 cm depth, 250 g) and straw (6 cm depth, 250 g) by using the method of static chamber. In Experiment 1, sawdust covering decreased cumulative NH_3 emissions by 15.28%-58.13% and cumulative CO_2 emissions by 4.61%-13.14% from cattle manure compared with that uncovered (P<0.05). However, sawdust covering simultaneously increased cumulative N_2O emissions by 6.57%-20.02% and cumulative CH_4 emissions by 29.82%-36.84% (P<0.05). The emission of NH_3, N_2O and CO_2 decreased and the emission of CH_4 increased with the increasing of sawdust covering depth in three treatments of sawdust covering. Considering that the indirect global warming potential of NH_3-N per kilogram was calculated on the basis of an emission of 0.01 kg N_2O-N and global warming potential in 100-year scale for CH_4 and N_2O, cumulative greenhouse gas emissions (based on CO_2) were 103.80, 108.61, 103.57 and 101.36 g/kg of manure weight for uncovered treatment, sawdust covering treatments with the covering depths of 1, 3, and 5 cm, respectively. Total greenhouse gas emissions showed a downward trend with the increasing of covering depth for covering treatments. In Experiment 2, both sawdust covering and straw covering reduced cumulative NH_3 and CO_2 emissions from solid cattle manure compared with that without covering during storage (P<0.05), but increased cumulative CH_4 emission (P<0.05).