Month: November 2010

Indonesia plans to class large areas of its remaining natural forests as “degraded” land in order to cut them down and receive nearly $1bn of climate aid for replanting them with palm trees and biofuel crops,...

Purdue University scientists have found the gene that is responsible for the production of the amino acid phenylalanine. This discovery could lead to processes to control the amino acid to boost plants’ nutritional values...

Biofuel production is beginning to have an impact on Angola’s economic growth, and is one of the factors behind current growth levels, together with a rise in oil production and more public investment, according to the Economist...

We flush it and it’s out of our lives. But does anyone give a you-know-what about our waste going to waste? “We do,” says Commissioner Cas Holloway of the City’s Department of Environmental Protection....

In the islands of the South Pacific Ocean, a new and viable fuel is being used to supplement the expensive diesel fuel that has traditionally fueled the island vehicles.  Coconut, a natural resource that the islands have in...