Government incentives helped kickstart a biofuel boom in the United States around 15 years ago. Every year, ethanol plants require around 130 million metric tonnes of maize. It accounts forContinue Reading
Today’s humans are seeing the start of the world’s first mass extinction in 65 million years. What does the loss of biodiversity entail for humanity and the environment? Unlike anyContinue Reading
At least five mass extinction events have decimated life on Earth over the past 450 million years — and experts believe civilization has already begun the sixth. An international teamContinue Reading
Climate change and rising temperatures are already causing a mass exodus away from the equator; this region is the most biodiverse ecosystems in the ocean. But as temperatures rise, aquaticContinue Reading
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $2.5 million technical assistance (TA) to support advanced (second-generation) biofuel development in India. Second-generation biofuels can be produced from non-edible sources likeContinue Reading
In a park on the Spanish island of Ibiza, a prototype for new renewable energy isn’t a huge spinning turbine or a field of solar panels. Instead, it’s partially hiddenContinue Reading
The latest development in the world of Biofuel involves cyanobacteria, aka blue-green algae, an organism that has been around for more than 3.5 billion years and may in fact! surpriseContinue Reading
Pune-based Praj Industries, a process, and project engineering company, recently signed a cooperation agreement with Sekab E-Technology AB, a Swedish cleantech company, to upgrade and commercialize base technology to produceContinue Reading
