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Study Investigates How India's Rice Production can Adapt to the Changing Climate

News - 12 Mar 2021

As the global population grows, the demand for food increases while arable land shrinks. A new University of Illinois study investigates how rice production in India can meet future needs by adapting...

Biochar to Increase Crop Yields Obtained Using Manure Waste

News - 8 May 2015

Researchers at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have obtained biochar using manure waste, a new material that can improve soil properties and increase crop yields. The results of the...

AMI to Host Conference on Green Polymer Chemistry

News - 1 Nov 2011

The term Green Polymer Chemistry is being used here to describe the production of established thermoplastics and elastomers from renewable sources, including polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP),...

Warming Climate to Impact Corn Production, Study Says

News - 23 Feb 2022

No matter which of the widely accepted global circulation models ultimately comes closest to predicting the amount of warming caused by climate change, corn production will be reduced, according to a...

Green Chemistry for Polymers

News - 17 May 2012

In the long-term industry will have to find substitutes for fossil fuels as supplies diminish and costs rise: so what is a sustainable resource for synthesis of conventional plastics? At Green Polymer...

Efficient Production of Both Biodiesel And Ethanol Can Now Be Achieved

News - 31 Jan 2008

Today, Green Star Products, Inc., announced that it has acquired a license to utilize a breakthrough processing technology to convert algae biomass to feedstock oil and cellulose sugars for the...

Non-Food Resources Will be Converted to Fuel

News - 17 Apr 2008

Biotechnology is delivering solutions to rapidly rising demand for both food and biofuels through improvements in current biofuel production, commercialization of cellulosic and other advanced...

AgBioEn: Australia's Groundbreaking Biomass Energy Facility

Article - 2 Jul 2020

On February 4, 2020, Australia-based AgBioEn began working on the construction of a $2 billion biomass energy facility in Katunga, Central Victoria.

Bioenergy Production Aids in Climate Change Mitigation

News - 24 Mar 2022

Newly published research from Michigan State University shows how farmers can grow environmentally friendly biofuel crops on unproductive marginal land. Biofuels based on lignocellulosic biomass, such...

Biofuel Boom Could Lead to Rainforest Destruction

News - 16 Feb 2009

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