Can 60% of current meat consumption be replaced by novel vegan meat replacements and cultured meat in the next 20 years? That is what AT Kearney has recently projected, but the analysis does not ...

The workshop presenter suggested that a more appropriate approach would be to consider a “consequential” LCA, which could consider both the immediate or direct impacts as well as the indirect impacts, ...

As markets balk, the US government recommits itself to the care and feeding of renewable fuels. Lavish subsidies and volumetric mandates haven’t been enough. The administration of Barack Obama could ...

Dry rot due to the fungus Serpula lacrymans causes millions of dollars worth of damage to homes and buildings around the world. Now a comparative analysis involving Serpula lacrymans, the second brown ...

If you're made of carbon, precious few things are as important to life as death. A dead tree may represent a literal windfall of the building blocks necessary for making new plants and animals and the ...

“Converting biomass feedstocks to biofuels is an environmentally friendly process. So is using biofuels for transportation. When we use bioethanol instead of gasoline, we help reduce atmospheric CO2.” ...

Marcia Moraes highlights lessons from Brazil's experience as a biofuel producer (Nature 474, S25; 2011), but some important ones are missing if production is to meet social and environmental standards ...

Thirty five years of experience has taught one of the world's leading biofuels producers several essential lessons, which other countries should heed, says Marcia Moraes. There was nothing inevitable ...

On June 23 and 24, 2009, the National Research Council’s Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability (“Roundtable”) hosted the workshop “Expanding Biofuel Production: Sustainability and ...

A new analysis of a group of bacteria called Streptomyces reveals the way some strains of the microbe developed advanced abilities to tear up cellulose, and points out more efficient ways we might ...