The workshop presenter suggested that a more appropriate approach would be to consider a “consequential” LCA, which could consider both the immediate or direct impacts as well as the indirect impacts, ...

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 ...

THERE’S A LESSON HERE: It seems President Donald Trump’s administration made significant progress Wednesday toward appeasing a bloc of corn-state Republicans blocking EPA nominees over the agency’s ...

If you're made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death. A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the building blocks necessary for making new plants and animals and the ...

“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.” ...

Learning Objectives Explain how wind power, biofuel, solar cells and geothermal power are used to generate electricity Discuss the pros and cons of using these renewable energy resources This lesson ...

Buses powered by soybeans. Agricultural waste transformed into car fuel. These possibilities have inspired governments around the world to include biofuels as a substantial part of their renewable ...

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 ...

On June 23 and 24, 2009, the National Research Council’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability (“Roundtable”) hosted the workshop “Expanding Biofuel Production: Sustainability and ...

If you’re made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death. A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the building blocks necessary for making new plants and animals and the ...

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 ...