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...

According to the newest publication of Prof. D. Tilman, biological fuel is not economically sustainable while energy used to produce biomass is meticulously...

A Black Revolution in Shenandoah Valley Agriculture & Energy Biochar, the modern version of an ancient Amazonian agricultural practice called Terra Preta (black...

Clearing tropical forests to plant biofuels is a bad idea for the climate and reduces the diversity of animal and plant life. “Keeping tropical rain forests...

This is a bit of a long shot but reading this report in the UK’s Daily Telegraph about Russia using big a good harvest as a foreign policy tool, got me thinking...

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

The replacement of traditional fuels with biofuels has dragged more than 30 million people worldwide into poverty, an aid agency report says.

The bio-fuel policies pursued by the rich countries are pushing millions of people in the developing world into poverty and increasing carbon emission, thereby negating...

Does the European Union need to slash its biofuels target to help lower global food prices? EU policy makers insist that the role played by the use of farmlands to...

It was an incongruous sight. King Carl XVI Gustaf, bespectacled monarch of Sweden, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the bush-bearded populist who has governed...

To people of the West, it is cheese that matters. But to the rest of the world, it is rice. To understand this very well in the American context, cheese is like...

# UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler told German radio Monday that the production of biofuels is “a crime against humanity” because of...

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...

Gordon Brown is preparing for a battle with the European Union over biofuels after one of the government’s leading scientists warned they could exacerbate climate...

The amount of corn it takes to produce 75 litres of ethanol -roughly a tank of fuel- is enough corn to feed one person on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet for a year.

January 9, 2008: Diversified Energy Corporation (DEC) announced today that the Centia™ process, during a recent demonstration, produced a bio-gasoline fuel very...

A West Texas Hi-Tech lab is designed for an unusual yet potentially revolutionary purpose; to explore how algae can be used to reduce the world’s dependence on...

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...