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Every year copious amounts of fertilizer and nutrient-rich sentiment dump into the Gulf of Mexico from the mouth of the Mississippi River, feeding massive algae blooms so large that they starve the ocean of oxygen. These oxygen-depleted waters, which...
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In a recent letter to President Obama, the Republican Senator from Iowa, Charles Grassley, threatened to hold U.S.-Brazil relations hostage to his insatiable thirst for...
made popular Jul 31 2009
Colombia’s government proudly claims that it is the biggest producer of biodiesel and ethanol in Latin America after Brazil, but human rights groups do not share...
made popular Jun 11 2009
The future of American-Latin American relations is extremely important. For the past sixty years, the US has taken a strong interest in Latin America initially as a...
made popular Feb 10 2009
The Philippines is pushing the use of alternative fuels like biodiesel from coconut, palm, and jatropha; and ethanol from cassava, sugarcane and corn to reduce its...
made popular Sep 30 2008
According to the Nikkei Business Daily (via Tradingmarkets.com), Japan’s Suzuki Motor Company will begin selling cars that run completely on 100% ethanol in the US...
made popular Aug 20 2008
The EFuel100 MicroFueler home-brews ethanol by fermenting a mix of table sugar and nutrient-treated yeast in the system’s 250-gal. tank.
made popular Aug 14 2008
Some time ago, I read an article in a certain publication that if the United States to raise the import Brazilian ethanol, in fact would be changing the oil dependency...
made popular Aug 13 2008
Gasoline prices have skyrocketed over the past few months. Economically, the escalation in gasoline prices is because it takes oil to make gasoline. The cost of...
made popular Jul 21 2008
U.S. may reduce tariffs on Brazilian ethanol, however this type of Brazilian industry still suffers discrimination.
made popular Jun 27 2008
There is a lot in the news lately about the prospect of Brazilian ethanol being used in the American market. It is about time. For me, there is no question that it...
made popular Jun 27 2008
Normally, the U.S. Republican presidents are better for Brazil, as defending the free trade. Regardless of their conservative domestic policies and the support to...
made popular Jun 23 2008
The Jatropha plant is one of the most environment friendly sources of bio fuel
The X-Prize foundation is mostly known for its often eye catching and headline grabbing...
made popular May 12 2008
Debate from two opposing perspectives on the value or harm of corn ethanol. You be the judge!
made popular May 3 2008
Some top international food scientists Tuesday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during...
made popular May 1 2008
Is this the perfect storm of worldwide panic and desperation created by the financial, food and fuel crisis not to mention climate change or is it media hysteria or is...
made popular Apr 25 2008
# With the world food prices rising over 45% in the last nine months, world is heading towards commodity crises never heard of before.
# Among the major factors -...
made popular Apr 10 2008
The world’s economy is acquiring a new energy addiction: biofuels. Crop-based fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel are quietly becoming a crucial component of the...
made popular Mar 26 2008
In the 2006 State of the Union address alongside his favorite portent of a hydrogen future, President Bush pledged additional research for “cutting-edge methods...
made popular Mar 26 2008
A team of researchers headed by an environmental engineer at Washington University in St. Louis is plying new techniques to produce a biofuel superior to ethanol.
made popular Jan 17 2008
In the past few years, the world has woken to the concept of biofuels in a big way. Large tracts of land and considerable policy space in both, the developed and the...
made popular Aug 21 2007
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The communist New People’s Army (NPA) vowed to sustain its campaign against biofuels and to raid plantations dedicated to jathropa, a source of biofuel.
made popular Nov 2 2008
Europe’s leaders know where they want to be when it comes to tackling global warming. The problem is they don’t know how to get there.President Nicolas...
made popular Oct 18 2008
In a wide-ranging session on Tuesday dealing with global biofuel, food security and poverty issues, there was plenty for the presenters to disagree about — but the...
made popular Oct 10 2008
While the fuel prices are soaring all time high globally, more and more countries are likely to switch over to biofuels. Nations are seeing this as good alternative of...
made popular Sep 4 2008
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...
made popular Aug 28 2008
Echoing Indian concerns that conversion of food grains into bio-fuels is worsening the food price situation, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...
made popular Jul 8 2008
Takatoshi Kato, IMF deputy managing director, cautions about effects of climate change on especially the warmest areas of the globe. Uganda is one of the countries...
made popular Jun 29 2008
The world is going green and the next generation of green machines, inspired entrepreneurs, Earth conscious students from around the world and the hopes and prayers of...
made popular May 14 2008
The price of rice and other food staples has increased around the world due to poor weather in some countries and rising demands. In Africa, the price of food has gone...
made popular May 6 2008
Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there’s...
made popular May 6 2008
Debate from two opposing perspectives on the value or harm of corn ethanol. You be the judge!
made popular May 3 2008
Some top international food scientists Tuesday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during...
made popular May 1 2008
Bolivian President Evo Morales came to New York this week to deliver the keynote address at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Morales became Bolivia’s...
made popular Apr 30 2008
Every morning, Hindu devotees haul buckets of fresh, creamy milk into this neighborhood temple, then close their eyes and bow in prayer as the milk is used to bathe a...
made popular Apr 30 2008
Breaking the dollar barrier “scares me,” said the Bronx-born owner of Bethesda Bagels. But with 100-pound bags of North Dakota flour now above $50 —...
made popular Apr 29 2008
Africa and Latin America should adopt their own versions of agricultural protection along the lines of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a response to...
made popular Apr 28 2008
The impact of rising food prices on world markets is already putting Latin America against the ropes: as regional giant Brazil insists its focus on biofuels has nothing...
made popular Apr 21 2008
Tricks has spent 15 years conjuring more from less — mostly in Africa, these days in Asia. His task, as an international aid worker, is to stretch scarce rations of...
made popular Apr 19 2008
Sixty countries backed by the World Bank and most UN bodies yesterday called for radical changes in world farming to avert increasing regional food shortages,...
made popular Apr 16 2008
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