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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 ...
22/4/2013
What started in 1970 as a teach-in about the environment has expanded year by year until Earth Day actions this year include more than one billion people in some 192 countries.
Many people are taking photos of their climate change ...
17/4/2013
The development of low-carbon energy is progressing too slowly to limit global warming, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.
With power generation still dominated by coal and governments failing to increase investment ...
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. ...
3/4/2013
Australia's main electricity market could source all of its electricity from renewable energy with the help of a carbon price of as low as $50 a tonne, according to research at the University of NSW.
The researchers found currently ...
29/3/2013
Researchers have taken a step closer to using atmospheric carbon dioxide as a
biofuel, potentially helping mitigate climate change while at the same time meeting rising energy demand, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the ...
24/3/2013
Rapidly growing trees like poplars and willows are candidate "biofuel crops" from which it is expected that cellulosic ethanol and higher energy content fuels can be efficiently extracted. Domesticating these as crops requires a deep ...
21/3/2013
Covering a global industry like automotive is air travel dependent.
I won't go into the awful details, but my annual carbon footprint is alarming. British Airways estimates in-flight carbon dioxide emission of a 10th of a kilogram per ...
16/3/2013
Five years ago, rural America was giddy for ethanol.Backed by government subsidies and mandates, hundreds of ethanol
plants rose among the golden fields of the Corn Belt, bringing jobs and business to small towns, providing farmers with a ...
14/3/2013
The rush around the world to plant crops used to produce
biofuel has not only sparked a global food vs. fuel debate, but it’s also putting biodiversity at risk.
Last fall, a group of more than 200 American scientists banded together to ...
12/3/2013
Developers of second generation
biofuels made from non-food crops and waste material are on track to deliver fuels that are cost-competitive with ethanol and conventional fossil fuels by the second half of this decade.
That is the ...
23/2/2013
Corn based ethanol makes up 10% of the fuel mix in the US and EPA has approved a 15% mix. But last year 20 ethanol producers closed up shop. Wallace Tyner, an energy economist at Purdue University explains to host Steve Curwood why small ethanol ...
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 ...
15/2/2013
In our ongoing quest for alternative energy sources, researchers are looking more to
plants that grow in the wild for use in
biofuels,
plants such as switchgrass.
However, attempts to "domesticate" wild-growing
plants have a downside, as ...
31/1/2013
Corn ethanol would get a larger share of the U.S. gasoline market under a government proposal on Thursday while ranchers, environmentalists and the oil industry aim to kill the renewable fuels mandate altogether.
The Obama administration ...
31/1/2013
Days after a federal appeals court said the Obama administration is setting overly optimistic production quotas for the struggling
biofuels industry, the government issued new standards Thursday that raise production estimates for ...
25/1/2013
A federal court delivered a defeat to the
biofuels industry Friday, ruling the U.S. government exceeded its authority by requiring refiners to purchase cellulosic
biofuel despite the fact the next-generation fuel is not commercially ...
22/1/2013
President Obama had mentioned climate change in prominent speeches before Monday.In his November victory speech, he spoke of protecting America’s children from “the destructive power of a warming planet.” At his first inauguration, he ...
19/1/2013
On Jan. 11, the National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee — a consortium of 13 federal agencies — released its third draft report on the impact of climate change on the U.S. As seems to be the rule with federal documents, it’s monstrously ...
16/1/2013
A mix of perennial grasses and herbs might offer the best chance for the U.S. to produce a sustainable
biofuel, according to the results of a new study. But making that dream a reality could harm local environments and would require developing ...
16/1/2013
Water resources, energy and land use are so mutually dependent that climate-related disruptions to any one of them could lead to economically devastating ripple effects -- especially as a growing population puts increasing strains on all three. ...
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 ...
6/1/2013
Some Canadian renewable energy companies with activities in the United States will be among those benefiting from U.S. "fiscal cliff" legislation that extended crucial tax credits for wind energy and biodiesel production.
As well as ...
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
WHETHER streaming from the tailpipes of cars or the smokestacks of so many power
plants and factories, carbon dioxide emissions keep growing around the globe.Now a Canadian company has developed a cleansing technology that may one day ...