“Converting biomass feedstocks to biofuels is an environmentally friendly process. So is using biofuels for transportation. When we use bioethanol instead of gasoline, we help reduce atmospheric CO2.” ...

Can 60% of current meat consumption be replaced by novel vegan meat replacements and cultured meat in the next 20 years? That is what AT Kearney has recently projected, but the analysis does not ...

As markets balk, the US government recommits itself to the care and feeding of renewable fuels. Lavish subsidies and volumetric mandates haven’t been enough. The administration of Barack Obama could ...

Dry rot due to the fungus Serpula lacrymans causes millions of dollars worth of damage to homes and buildings around the world. Now a comparative analysis involving Serpula lacrymans, the second brown ...

Djenane Saint Juste of Afoutayi Dance, Music, and Arts Company. On this week’s 51%, meet a businesswoman whose biofuel crops include sunflowers, Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman shares some life ...

A new analysis of a group of bacteria called Streptomyces reveals the way some strains of the microbe developed advanced abilities to tear up cellulose, and points out more efficient ways we might ...

In the next 30 years, the number of flights is expected to increase by 70 per cent. Unless things change, by 2050 the aviation industry will have used up more than a quarter of all the carbon dioxide ...

Last May, I attended World Bioenergy 2008, a big conference and trade fair in Sweden. The conference theme, "From Know-How to Show-How," was on new inventions that have started thriving bioenergy ...

Thirty five years of experience has taught one of the world's leading biofuels producers several essential lessons, which other countries should heed, says Marcia Moraes. There was nothing inevitable ...

Marcia Moraes highlights lessons from Brazil's experience as a biofuel producer (Nature 474, S25; 2011), but some important ones are missing if production is to meet social and environmental standards ...

There are risks to global warming policy as well as risks to global warming, and although the former could be costlier than the latter, they are often neglected in climate change debate. While it may ...

MENA utilities are turning to hydrogen and biofuels, supported by international collaboration and innovative project design, ...