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17/4/2013
Lake Erie faces a greener future—and that’s bad. Scientists say harmful algal blooms like the one from 2011 will strike more often. More extreme weather and warming trends could also extend bad blooms’ duration.As a result, Lake Erie’s ...
6/4/2013
A city administrator looks out at the Gulf of Mexico from this Southeast Texas town, wondering what vicious hurricanes it may spawn. In the Panhandle, a farmer tries new techniques to keep soil from turning to dust. In West Texas, ranchers watch ...
19/3/2013
The United States could cut petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 for light-duty vehicles through the use of alternative fuels and strong government policies aimed at overcoming high costs and influencing ...
18/3/2013
A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light-duty vehicles -- cars and small trucks -- via a combination of more ...
10/1/2013
Perennial
biofuel crops such as miscanthus, whose high yields have led them to be considered an eventual alternative to
corn in producing ethanol, are now shown to have another beneficial characteristic -- the ability to reduce the escape of ...
27/11/2012
A cool October broke a 16-month streak of above average temperatures across the Lower 48, but temperatures are projected to remain above normal across most of the western half of the country in the coming months. In addition, the latest climate ...
16/11/2012
Ethanol, a component of
biofuel made from plants such as
corn, is blended with gas in many parts of the country, but has significantly different fluid properties than pure gasoline. A group of researchers from the University of Michigan wondered ...
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 ...
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 ...
17/9/2012
European targets to replace fossil fuels with
biofuels are contributing to spikes in food prices and global hunger, according to the latest analyis by Oxfam.
The aid organisation is calling for EU energy ministers meeting in Cyprus on ...
6/9/2012
Ethanol has been good to Galva, Iowa. This kernel of a community has grown almost 20 percent since the 2000 census, to 434 people-a growth spurt that locals attribute to a new golden age for
corn and their very own ethanol plant, which opened in ...
5/9/2012
Coverage of the US drought and the run-up in
corn, soybean, and wheat prices has been extensive and welcome. It has also been prone to the repetition of falsehoods and the perpetuation of myths about the causes of the food crisis – and the ...
4/9/2012
Nestlé, the world's largest food company, has added its weight to calls by the UN and development groups for the US and EU to change their
biofuel targets because of looming food shortages and price rises.
"We say no food for fuel," said ...
31/8/2012
The shepherds of Germany are worried. There are still about 2,000 of them tending sheep on grasslands, plying their ancient trade and defying time and the intrusions of modernity.
But it is a losing battle. The pastures they and the ...
21/8/2012
From Congress to The Colbert Report, people are talking about the Midwestern drought and debating whether it makes sense to convert the country's shrinking
corn supplies into ethanol to power our cars.
It's the latest installment of the ...
26/7/2012
Two inches of rain over the next two weeks is all that the soybean crop needs to ensure that millions of tiny pink flowers now budding at a near-record pace mature into the small green pods that will help feed the world.
As scattered ...
21/1/2012
How can we feed the 2.5 billion more people – an extra China and India – likely to be alive in 2050? The UN says we will have to nearly double our food production and governments say we should adopt new technologies and avoid waste, but however ...
13/1/2012
Echoes from armed raids still seem to resound in this valley, eight hours north of the capital city. In early 2011 military and paramilitary forces forcibly evicted 13 communities of indigenous Mayan peasants—some 300 families were dispossessed ...
10/1/2012
When the companies that supply motor fuel close the books on 2011, they will pay about $6.8 million in penalties to the Treasury because they failed to mix a special type of
biofuel into their gasoline and diesel as required by law.But ...
10/1/2012
If there is an epicenter of the nation's farmland boom, it can be found here amid the rolling hills of northwest Iowa.
A fortune is being plowed into the dirt of Sioux County, where well-heeled farmers and wealthy investors compete ...
10/12/2011
Great Plains ecosystems absorb more carbon than they emit, and the region’s carbon storage is expected to increase during the next few decades.
That will come even as climate change accelerates the carbon cycle and more natural ...
9/11/2011
The city of Fort Collins may phase out use of
corn-based ethanol in its fleet vehicles out of concern for the environment.
The majority of City Council members said Tuesday they would support gradually doing away with the use of E85 ...
7/11/2011
Biofuels produced from oil palm plantations established on tropical peatlands are a substantial source of greenhouse gas emissions, reports a comprehensive new assessment conducted for the International Council on Clean Transportation ...
29/10/2011
"People feel this is like the return of colonialism," says Athumani Mkambala, chairman of Mhaga village in rural Tanzania. "Colonialism in the form of investment."
A quarter of the village's land in Kisarawe district was acquired by a ...
23/10/2011
Mid-Iowa
biofuel advocates, academicians and environmentalists are debating the merits of a new study by the National Research Council that questions whether alternative fuel produced from cellulosic plants and grasses can be done cheaply enough ...