Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

A cactus is a slow-growing plant adapted to desert areas with intense heat and environment that stores moisture in roots, leaves and stems. In Kenya, the plants are mainly found in semi-arid and arid ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute have created a new way to convert food waste into renewable fuel. Scientists, led by chemical engineering professor Michael Timko, employed a process ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- While cellulosic biofuels derived from grasses, crop residues and inedible plant parts have real potential to be more efficient and environmentally friendly than grain-based ...

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The promise of biofuels like ethanol is that they will someday help the world grow its way out of its addiction to oil. Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the U.S. in 2008, while ...

Ewan Selmes is a games and entertainment journalist with several years' experience in the industry, writing for a variety of digital publications as well as small businesses. As a gamer, Ewan has more ...

The U.S. Department of Energy had a vision: Slash in half the amount of a potent greenhouse gas that enters the atmosphere when growing corn and sorghum for biofuel. That gas — nitrous oxide — mostly ...

ST. PAUL -- The corn ethanol industry has flourished in Minnesota, and now legislators want to help the next generation of plant-based fuels. But differing approaches have developed as lawmakers rush ...