Environmental stories tagged with: biofuel

Farmers across the tropics might raze forests to plant biofuel crops, according to new research by Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment.

The Prince of Wales has published his Household annual report which details his carbon footprint, and the efforts it has gone to reduce it.

A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's transportation fuel if production can be scaled up.

Rapid increases in the large-scale production of liquid biofuels in developing countries could exacerbate the marginalisation of women in rural areas threatening their livelihoods, according to a new Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) study at the United Nations.

From tomorrow (15th April), all road fuels will be required to contain 2.5% biofuel, rising to 5% by 2010, under a move known as the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO).

The European Environment Agency Scientific Committee is recommending a new, comprehensive scientific study on the environmental risks and benefits of biofuels, and that the EU target to increase the share of biofuels used in transport to 10% by 2020 should be suspended.

The Carbon Trust is planning on funding research projects to create biofuel from an alchemist sounding process called Pyrolysis.

A new Agency to manage Britain's commitment to biofuels was established yesterdat by Transport Secretary Ruth Kelly.

Volkswagen and Daimler have put their money where they think the future of fuel is when they acquired a minority shareholding in a Freiberg based biofuel company, Choren Industries.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, presented his pre-budget report to the House of Commons yesterday, what was in it for the environment?

In August, A1GP World Cup of Motorsport committed to swithing to a 30% bio-ethanol fuel mix, but "technical issues" have delayed its introduction to the 22 A1GP race cars.