Biofuel

Australia aims to become a major exporter of biofuels especially because of the country's comparative advantage to support production of the resource.

The EU Commission began investigating whether biodiesel from Indonesia was being transshipped through China to avoid EU taxes.

More than 600,000 flights between Sydney and Melbourne could be powered by fuel made from agricultural waste in ...

Several long-term studies show that the impact of increased corn ethanol production has worse environmental consequences in terms ...

Albertans more than those in any other jurisdiction are opposed to a carbon tax, and many in the ...

The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy is occurring mainly at the power plant level. But what ...

Algal biofuels are in trouble.

Falling gasoline prices have sparked a comeback among gas guzzlers, and the Obama administration wants to stop it ...

The Environmental Protection Agency recently issued new rules dictating that 18 billion gallons of biofuels must be blended ...

By promoting the hypothesis that humanity controls Earth’s climate, Pope Francis and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon ...

Bio-derived sources of energy—wood, grass, dung and alcohol—have a rich history yet have failed to command the "buzz" ...

Scientists are among the first to investigate using city wastewater as a feedstock for algae-based biofuels.

Land is precious, and using it to produce biofuels is something the world cannot afford if we are ...

As the world runs out of oil, biofuels and oil palms look like an easy way to grab ...

Growing carefully chosen plants like agave amid photovoltaic panels could allow solar farms to not only collect sunlight ...

What began 20 years ago as an innovation to improve paper production and to make poplars more digestible ...

Researchers have engineered a bacterium to synthesize pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy ...

The environmental benefits of biofuels over fossil fuels may be overestimated, due to problems in the way greenhouse ...