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Softwood Engineered with Hardwood Feature Could Improve Economics of Biofuel Industries

Scientists have demonstrated the potential for softwoods to process more easily into pulp and paper if engineered to incorporate a key feature of hardwoods.

23 Apr 2015

Scientists Find Way to Increase Supplies of Renewable Resources, Help Trees Cope with Climate Change

Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a way to make trees grow bigger and faster, which could increase supplies of renewable resources and help trees cope with the effects of climate change.

20 Apr 2015

Researchers Discover Switch That Regulates Plant Photosynthesis, Could Boost Biofuel Production

A team of Michigan State University researchers has discovered a switch that regulates plant photosynthesis – the process that lets plants store solar energy and use it to grow and produce food.

17 Apr 2015

New Powerful DNA Dataset for Efficient Production of Biofuels

Scientists focused on producing biofuels more efficiently have a new powerful dataset to help them study the DNA of microbes that fuel bioconversion and other processes.

16 Apr 2015

Marine Research Vessel Aranda to be Fuelled with Domestic Bio-Oil

Finnish Environment Institute's and VG-Shipping Ltd's press release
The marine research vessel Aranda's carbon load will be significantly reduced when she starts being fuelled with domestic bio-oil made from food industry by-products, such as used vegetable oils and fish guts. Early this year, the vessel already switched over to bio-oil for heating.

10 Apr 2015

Nationwide Sodsaver Needed to Protect Remaining Native Ecosystems

Clearing grasslands to make way for biofuels may seem counterproductive, but University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers show in a study today (April 2, 2015) that crops, including the corn and soy commonly used for biofuels, expanded onto 7 million acres of new land in the U.S. over a recent four-year period, replacing millions of acres of grasslands.

6 Apr 2015

Algae Grown on Wastewater also Removes Nitrates and Phosphorous

In one of the first studies to examine the potential for using municipal wastewater as a feedstock for algae-based biofuels, Rice University scientists found they could easily grow high-value strains of oil-rich algae while simultaneously removing more than 90 percent of nitrates and more than 50 percent of phosphorous from wastewater.

6 Apr 2015

Five Strains of Naturally Occurring Yeasts Can Turn Agricultural By-Products into Bioethanol

Straw-powered cars could be a thing of the future thanks to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

30 Mar 2015

New, Mutant Yeast Strain Could Improve Efficiency of Biofuel Production

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have used a combination of metabolic engineering and directed evolution to develop a new, mutant yeast strain that could lead to a more efficient biofuel production process that would make biofuels more economically competitive with conventional fuels. Their findings were published online in the journal Metabolic Engineering in March.

25 Mar 2015

Mexico CIDETEQ Successfully Obtains Biogas from Organic Waste

The Center for Research and Technological Development in Electrochemistry (CIDETEQ), in Mexico, has managed to obtain biogas from "garbage or organic waste", having replaced part of the natural gas used by the Pilgrim's company in the state of Querétaro, which produces chicken, and in Xaquixe, a company dedicated to the development of glass art in the state of Oaxaca.

19 Mar 2015