In future years we may look back at the Great Mexican Tortilla Crisis of 2006 as the time when ethanol lost its vroom.
It's one of the newest buildings in this small agricultural town. Aligned between two city water towers, the 120-foot long biodiesel plant gleams in the sun. The paint on its sign hasn't even chipped.
A U.N. agency on Tuesday called for an urgent review of agriculture and biofuel subsidies and trade barriers, saying their removal would increase opportunities for developing countries to take advantage of rising biofuel demand.
EU lawmakers voted Thursday to cut in half an ambitious target for using crop-based biofuels for 10 percent of its road transport needs by 2020.
Leaders gathered at a summit on the world's food crisis quickly laid out their disagreements on a key issue: how much the rush for environmentally friendly biofuels is contributing to soaring prices that are causing hunger and unrest worldwide.
The Bush administration is defending its decision to push food-based biofuels as food costs rise at home and abroad, saying the renewable fuels are only a small part of the problem.
The U.S. and European Union should reconsider a shift to biofuels that has helped increase food prices worldwide by turning agricultural land over to energy crops, American economist Jeffrey Sachs said Monday.
Ask an overseas visitor what’s different about the United States, and one of the first things you’ll often hear about is our grocery stores — those endlessly long aisles piled high with all manner of grains, produce, meat and delicacies. For many visitors, it’s a hallmark of America’s largesse; for us, it’s a constant reminder that, whatever problems we may face here, we live in the land of plenty.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made an impassioned defense of biofuels, denying that their production contributes to food scarcity and rising global prices.
The world's rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike in the price of corn and other crops and could worsen water shortages and force poor communities off their land, a U.N. official said Wednesday.
When it comes to solving the fossil fuel crisis, it seems like every silver lining comes accompanied by a dark cloud.
A proposed ethanol alliance that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to forge with President Bush later this week poses both opportunities and risks for the environment, a top U.N. environmental official said Monday.
An ambitious attempt to rank future energy sources according to myriad repercussions of their use has found biofuels to be the most undesirable option.
A new study has determined that keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations. It was undertaken by an international research team of botanists, ecologists and engineers from seven nations.
The Queen is to set to 'go green' by having her two gas-guzzling state Bentleys converted to run on biofuels.
A tree fungus could be used to power diesel cars after it was found to contain many similar properties to that of regular diesel fuel.
By HENRY FOUNTAIN Published: December 22, 2008 As American farmers have grown more corn for ethanol production, concerns about the practice have increased, too.
The United States will fall well short of biofuels mandates on the uncertain development of next-generation fuels made from grasses and wood chips, the government's top energy forecasting agency said on Wednesday.
In a bid to put to rest the food versus fuel debate two scientists from NASA, Jelte Rozema and Timothy Flowers, have pointed out in an article for Science magazine that the work of University of Arizona plant biologist Robert Glenn should be seriously considered.
Out of the Shadows Economy aside, America needs to take the lead in the developing world Published On Thursday, October 09, 2008 11:55 PM By RAUL A. CARRILLO
Researchers in search of products that can be used for biofuel are looking beyond corn to fields of sorghum.
Despite a promising start, the U.S. experiment with renewable fuels is facing a serious challenge next year.
GRANADA, Spain, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Spanish scientists say olive pits, also know as stones, can be turned into bioethanol and used as an alternative power source for gasoline or diesel.
Bill Gates' investment firm is funding Sapphire Energy, a company that intends to make auto fuel from algae.
A genuine revolution in biofuels is currently hindered by the difficulty of converting the most recalcitrant parts of plants, primarily the cellulose of their fibers, into useful fuel.
Scientists working at Arizona State University's Laboratory for Algae Research & Biotechnology hope that tiny algae will be able to fuel jumbo jets.
Tequila could become a thing of the past as Mexico appears to be turning its back on the cactus-like plant from which the country's national tipple is made, in favour of more profitable crops.
Scientists have increasingly warned that a hasty switch from fossil fuels to biofuels may actually accelerate global warming rather than helping to avert it, leading U.K.
A new catalyst makes hydrogen from ethanol with 90 percent yield, at a workable temperature, and using inexpensive ingredients.
By feeding algae extra carbon dioxide — the principle greenhouse gas contributing to climate change — and organic material like sewage, environmental engineering professors Andres Clarens and Lisa Colosi believe they can boost algae oil yields to as much as 40 percent by weig …
All new cars will have some degree of hybridization by 2020, by which point battery technology will be ubiquitous and vehicles will communicate with one another and the road to make driving safer and easier. That vision of the future is laid out in "Automotive 2020: Clarity Beyo …
Sometimes we feel it necessary to remind our readers that we really love cars. Honest, we do. We love cars that are fun to drive, and we especially love cars that offer unencumbered performance with a minimal geopolitical and environmental impact.
"This fuel is carbon-neutral. It has lower greenhouse gas emissions [than fossil fuels]," says Barry, who raises grass-fed beef on his farm in Primrose township.
As we can see now, the diversion of our corn supply from grocery stores to gasoline pumps has caused the price of corn to spiral out of control. Corn prices were once driven by market forces. Today they are artificially driven up by a government mandate.
So remember way back when, when Dell made a move off the grid by powering 100 percent of its 2.1 million square-foot global headquarters campus, home to more than 10,000 employees, with 100 percent green power? Well heres the follow up!