Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is often used to evaluate the sustainability of biofuels from a systems perspective. However, as shown in Figure 2, “attributional” LCA analyses do not address economic or ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Douglas Crawford-Brown receives funding from European Commission via the FP7 programme. Biofuels have come under scrutiny in the latest IPCC report, which outlines some of the emergent risks ...

Djenane Saint Juste of Afoutayi Dance, Music, and Arts Company. On this week’s 51%, meet a businesswoman whose biofuel crops include sunflowers, Olympic gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman shares some life ...