Archive for the ‘biofuels’ Category

Biofuel backlash: High prices, pollution worries hit consumers

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

But in the last year, the promise of renewable fuels has lost a lot of its luster. Prices of biodiesel have almost doubled to about $6 per gallon, and many experts blame biofuel production for driving up food prices worldwide. Prominent scientists have questioned whether growing crops for biofuels produces ...

US corn biofuels will expand Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’: scientists

Monday, March 10th, 2008

A boost in corn production will worsen the Gulf's so-called "dead zone," an area with so little oxygen that sealife suffocates, said Simon Donner, a geographer at the University of British Columbia in Western Canada. Read the full story