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Compost Materials Being Used for Ethanol Means Loss of Carbon Nutrients from the Soil

News - 7 Dec 2008

As the United States continues to develop alternative energy methods and push towards energy independence, cellulosic-based ethanol has emerged as one of the most commercially viable technologies....

Using Manure and Other Farm Byproducts to Remove Toxic Hydrogen Sulfide from Biogas

News - 4 Dec 2008

Cornell plant scientists have invented a new method that uses manure and other farm byproducts to remove toxic hydrogen sulfide from biogas -- a renewable energy source derived from the breakdown of...

Improving Carbon Footprint of Biofuels by Replacing Corn with Perennial Grasses

News - 3 Dec 2008

Converting forests or fields to biofuel crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where – and which – biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers...

Nuclear Science Being Used to Ensure Food Security

News - 3 Dec 2008

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today called for increased investment in a plant breeding technique that could bolster efforts aimed at pulling millions of people out of the hunger trap....

African Cities and Their Ecological Impact

News - 2 Dec 2008

African cities are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. This is having a major impact, but few ecologists are studying the urban environment and effect of cities on rural areas. One of the...

Organic Matter in Soil Being Changed by Global Warming

News - 25 Nov 2008

New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth. Scientists at the University of Toronto...

Bonus for Agriculture from Nutrients in Water

News - 24 Nov 2008

Agriculture producers may find they don't have to bottle their water from the Seymour Aquifer in the Rolling Plains to make it more valuable, according to Texas AgriLife Research...

Development of Advanced Cellulose Ethanol

News - 24 Nov 2008

Swedish researchers at Taurus Energy, SEKAB, Chalmers Technical University and the University of Lund have signed an agreement on development and large scale implementation of a new improved...

Pollution of Freshwater Costing at Least $4.3 Billion Every Year

News - 24 Nov 2008

Pollution by phosphorous and nitrogen isn't just bad for lakes, streams and other bodies of fresh water. According to researchers at Kansas State University, it's also bad for Americans'...

New Strategies for Effective Farm Irrigation

News - 23 Nov 2008

Lack of clean water is responsible for more deaths in the world than war. Water conservation, high-tech irrigation strategies, desalination for increasing drinking water supplies, and large-scale...