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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

India's fuel policy is increasingly being shaped by blending targets. First came ethanol blending mandates.

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 ...

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 ...

Many presentations at the workshop described increases in the production and use of biofuels over the last decade. These have been driven largely by federal and state policies intended to create a ...

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 ...