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Articles The White House Is Backing the Bioeconomy—But What Is It, Exactly? The bioeconomy promises to lengthen our lives, address environmental issues, and clean up manufacturing.Sarah Laskow29 Apr, 2012
Articles What if Making Biofuel Means Growing Dangerous Invasive Species? The same qualities that make a good biofuel crop are also hallmarks of species that crowd out native plant life.Sarah Laskow26 Apr, 2012
Articles Attack of the Killer Algae? The Risks of Creating Biofuels When the organisms we're engineering to make biofuels escape into the wild, could they irrevocably alter healthy ecosystems?Sarah Laskow08 Oct, 2011
Articles How Heat-Loving Fungi Could Cook Up Better Biofuels Fungi that live in 150-degree compost piles love heat, are good at breaking plants down, and could help make biofuels more efficiently.Sarah Laskow05 Oct, 2011
Articles Animal Poop Could Hold the Key to Better Biofuels Biofuels come from breaking down plant matter, and digestive systems are quite good at doing that. But some creatures are better at it than others.Sarah Laskow02 Sep, 2011
Articles Tulane Scientists Are Turning Newspapers Into Biofuel Scientists at Tulane University have found a bacteria that produces butanol, a biofuel that’s superior to ethanol in just about every way.Sarah Laskow28 Aug, 2011
Design The Wright Stuff: A Hunt for the Greenest Aircraft Ever A look at the contenders in a Google and NASA-sponsored aviation competition to determine the greenest airplane ever.Sarah Laskow08 Aug, 2011
Articles Would You Pay $57 More to Fly to London? Ticket prices to Europe could rise if the European Union gets its way and starts charging American airlines for their flights' carbon emissions.Sarah Laskow31 Jul, 2011
Articles U.K. Company to Make Power from 50 Year-Old Garbage Digging up the waste from the past could power 60,000 homes if a plan to mine a landfill for energy comes to be.Green Futures23 Apr, 2011
Articles Are Biofuels Ready for the Bigtime? Electricity isn't the only non-petroleum-based fuel touted as changing the transportation landscape. What's happening with biofuels?Ariel Schwartz22 Nov, 2010