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11/5/2013
A plant which is a staple
food crop for millions of people across Africa is at risk from disease as regional temperatures rise, scientists say.
The plant, cassava, is a significant source of
food and income, and is an important ...
10/5/2013
Bees are back in the news this spring, if not back in fields pollinating this summer's
crops. The European Union (EU) has announced that it will ban, for two years, the use of neonicotinoids, the much-maligned pesticide group often fingered in ...
1/5/2013
New discoveries of the way plants transport important substances across their biological membranes to resist toxic metals and pests, increase salt and drought tolerance, control water loss and store sugar can have profound implications for ...
25/4/2013
China Eastern Airlines has said it plans to introduce
biofuel-powered commercial flights, after yesterday completing its first successful trial of green aviation fuel.
An Airbus A320 landed at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport ...
18/4/2013
Proposed amendments to the EU's
biofuels policy could see distinctions made between fuels on the basis of their climate impact.
The move was advocated in a European Parliament report into the EU's current proposals to tackle the problem ...
9/4/2013
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has consistently over-estimated the prospects for production of advanced
biofuels from non-food
crops, adding to the impression of a
biofuel policy that is out of step with reality.
The U.S. ...
20/2/2013
A new plant is rising from the fields around Emmetsburg, Iowa--one that will ferment into ethanol the cobs, stems and husks of corn from nearly 50,000 hectares of farmland. Such cellulosic ethanol offers a way to get the energy and environmental ...
15/2/2013
Following a promising start, Brazil`s dream of positioning ethanol in the global market on an equal standing with petroleum-based fuels is hindered by new and old challenges.
Brazil`s goal of expanding ethanol sales across the world will ...
23/1/2013
The high amount of carbon that pours into the atmosphere when arid and semi-arid land is converted for Jatropha oil production may outweigh the environmental benefits of such a
biofuel, says a new report.The findings run contrary to ...
14/1/2013
Biofuel refinery in new industrial zone in Tapachula, an exporting city on the coast of Chiapas. With plans for expansion, there is a coffee plant to its left and an oil refinery being built on its right. Mexico is currently laying the foundation ...
9/1/2013
Not long ago
biofuels were seen as one of the major tools to combat climate change, but a large number of studies in recent years have shown that many first generation
biofuels may have little climate benefit—and some are actually harmful—and are ...
9/1/2013
Biofuels -- the green low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels -- could both damage human health and reduce
crop yields, British scientists warn in the journal Nature Climate Change. They calculate that widespread introduction of plantations of ...
6/1/2013
Green schemes to fight climate change by producing more bio-fuels could actually worsen a little-known type of air pollution and cause almost 1,400 premature deaths a year in Europe by 2020, a study showed on Sunday.
The report said ...
5/1/2013
In the tiny tortillerias of this city, people complain ceaselessly about the high price of corn. Just three years ago, one quetzal — about 15 cents — bought eight tortillas; today it buys only four. And eggs have tripled in price because chickens ...
28/11/2012
The European Commission has approved palm oil-based biodiesel for the renewable fuels standard provided it is certified under the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body that sets social and environmental criteria for palm oil ...
12/11/2012
Palm oil is on a lot of people’s minds. In Indonesia, the industry is booming, with $19.7 billion of crude palm oil exports in 2011. But expanding oil palm plantations have taken their toll on remaining forests and other natural habitats in ...
1/11/2012
In the race to convert
crops into energy, all eyes are on giant reed, a fast-growing and hardy grass species found throughout Texas and the southern United States.
Yet, the very qualities that make the species, also known as arundo ...
31/10/2012
Population growth, urbanisation, industrialisation and climate change are putting pressure on the world's river basins, and "hydro-diplomacy' is essential if water-related conflicts are to be avoided, experts said on Wednesday.Cooperation ...
17/10/2012
New EU rules to limit how much
food can be made into
biofuels are "not perfect" and make it harder to achieve overall goals on switching to low carbon energy, European Commissioners said on Wednesday.
But they insisted the proposals sent ...
17/10/2012
The European commission has watered down proposals to reduce the indirect climate impact of
biofuels, but is sticking to a strict new limit on the amount of
food crops that can be used to make fuel, draft legislation showed.
The late ...
16/10/2012
The European Commission has watered down proposals to reduce the indirect climate impact of
biofuels, but is sticking to a strict new limit on the amount of
food crops that can be used to make fuel, EU sources said on Tuesday.
The late ...
15/10/2012
Tiny Columbus, New Mexico (population, 1,678) is hot, flat and uncrowded -- an ideal place to launch a new green revolution in agriculture. That, in essence, is what a well-funded startup company called Sapphire Energy wants to do: It is turning ...
13/10/2012
Andrew Watts, 52, is looking nervously at the darkening sky. We are standing at the edge of a field, where his new red-and-yellow seed drill is sowing wheat at an impressive clip. The vast machine can cover six hectares (15 acres) an hour but it ...
11/10/2012
Growing use of U.S.-produced corn for
biofuel has added $6.6 billion to the
food import bills of developing countries over the past six years, highlighting the need to rethink energy policies that are making
food more expensive for poor people, ...
11/10/2012
Despite government pledges to rein in deforestation, Indonesia is on track to release vast amounts of greenhouse gases over the next decade as its burgeoning palm oil industry churns under carbon-rich peat and cuts down its ...