A cactus is a slow-growing plant adapted to desert areas with intense heat and environment that stores moisture in roots, leaves and stems. In Kenya, the plants are mainly found in semi-arid and arid ...

Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created a new way to convert food waste into renewable fuel. Scientists, led by chemical engineering professor Michael Timko, employed a process ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- While cellulosic biofuels derived from grasses, crop residues and inedible plant parts have real potential to be more efficient and environmentally friendly than grain-based ...

The promise of biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil. Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the U.S. in 2008, while ...

The White House is reviewing a high-stakes rule that could reshape the balance of interests between oil refiners and farmers by determining how - or even whether - to redistribute huge volumes of ...

The US government has made two different proposals for large refineries to make up for biofuel blending requirements waived ...