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December 2nd, 2008 - 5:15 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): A new study has determined that keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations.
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November 4th, 2008 - 4:01 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): Scientists have described new advances in developing new fuels like green gasoline, designer hydrocarbons, the ice that burns, and other sources that can help power an energy-hungry ...
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October 22nd, 2008 - 4:54 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 22 (ANI): A new research has explored the possibilities of how enzymes produced by both termites and the micro-organisms that inhabit their gut could help to produce biofuel from ...
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September 10th, 2008 - 3:41 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, September 10 (ANI): Scientists have determined that oil seed rape grown for biofuel in Ireland could help clean up contaminated soils.
Using plants to help clean up heavily polluted soils has ...
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September 1st, 2008 - 3:15 pm ICT by ANI
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London, September 1 (ANI): British sports car maker Lotus has unveiled a new model that runs on biofuel, and can do up to 84mph (135km/h) over snow and ice.
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August 21st, 2008 - 4:04 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 21 (ANI): Scientists have found a way to convert ethanol and other biofuels into hydrogen very efficiently, by using a new catalyst that makes hydrogen from ethanol with 90 ...
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August 20th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 20 (ANI): A team of researchers from the University of Virginia in the US is trying to determine exactly how promising algae biofuel production can be by tweaking the ...
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July 26th, 2008 - 1:05 pm ICT by IANS
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Kandy (Sri Lanka), July 26 (IANS) The number of hungry people in south Asia will rise to over 588 million by 2009, says a coalition of NGOs and academics from the region, ...
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July 1st, 2008 - 2:59 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 1 (ANI): Chemical engineers at Rice University have unveiled a set of techniques for cleanly converting problematic biofuels waste into chemicals that fetch a profit.
The techniques include a new ...
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June 13th, 2008 - 12:23 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 13 (ANI): Experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) claim that they have analysed what processing would be required to transform crude oil made from pig ...
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June 12th, 2008 - 11:42 am ICT by IANS
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New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) India Wednesday slammed the US for blaming it for the global food crisis, and said the major reason behind the sky-high food prices was the shift from ...
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June 5th, 2008 - 9:56 pm ICT by IANS
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DPA
Rome, June 5 (DPA) Delegates from some 50 nations attending a food summit in Rome were trying Thursday to hammer out a common agreement on how to fight world hunger, which has ...
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May 27th, 2008 - 2:00 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 27 (ANI): Researchers in China have reported a discovery that could turn rice straw into an inexpensive new renewable source of biofuel.
Their new study, due to appear in ACS ...
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May 27th, 2008 - 11:59 am ICT by admin
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Brussels, May 27 (IANS) Indian parliamentarian and environmental activist Maneka Gandhi has called for a world "where we don't emit carbon at all". A former environment minister in India, Gandhi told the ...
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May 11th, 2008 - 11:54 am ICT by admin
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Edinburgh , May 11 (ANI): A former computer programmer has developed a process by which waste cooking oil can be converted into a fuel which can be used to run diesel-powered ...
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May 7th, 2008 - 10:35 pm ICT by admin
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DPA
Brussels, May 7 (DPA) The surge in world food prices comes from causes such as rising demand in China and India, bad harvests and rising fuel prices, not European Union's (EU) biofuel ...
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May 6th, 2008 - 4:56 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 6 (IANS) India is considering shutting down on trading in food futures, the Financial Times Tuesday quoted Finance Minister P. Chidambaram as saying. Chidambaram made the proposal on the sidelines ...
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May 1st, 2008 - 9:11 am ICT by admin
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Hamburg, May 1 (DPA) The increased use of biofuels has been partially responsible for a hefty increase in food prices worldwide with Western governments now having second thoughts on "green ...
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April 26th, 2008 - 7:55 pm ICT by admin
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Chennai, April 26 (IANS) For Nobel laureate microbiologist Sidney Altman, biofuels and clones are "no, no" but genetically modified (GM) food is a big "yes". The renowned professor at Yale University thinks ...
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April 16th, 2008 - 3:24 pm ICT by admin
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London, April 16 (ANI): They might be derided for contributing to expanding waistlines but potatoes may be the solution for alleviating the global food crisis.
Researchers at the International Potato Centre, in ...
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April 9th, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, April 9 (IANS) What does the cow have to do with the global oil crisis? Well, it may help ease it! An enzyme from a microbe that resides deep in a ...
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March 9th, 2008 - 1:52 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, March 9 (ANI): Researchers from Purdue University in US have defined a new biochemical pathway in plants which could mean better biofuel sources in the future.
According to researchers, the newly defined ...
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March 5th, 2008 - 5:29 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Mar.5 (ANI): The first SAARC conference on agriculture began here today with a focus on alleviating hunger and poverty in the region. A three-day meet will discuss the regional agrarian ...
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March 4th, 2008 - 11:13 am ICT by admin
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London, March 4 (IANS) In a finding that paves the way for fourth-generation biofuels and dramatic crop improvements, scientists have got a fix on how plants regulate the amount of carbon dioxide ...
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November 24th, 2007 - 5:16 pm ICT by admin
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London, November 24 (ANI): A pair of British adventurers have begun a journey across Europe and west Africa in a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry, powered by a fuel made from waste chocolate.
Andy ...
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November 18th, 2007 - 11:35 am ICT by admin
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Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): A new study by NASA has estimated that aerosol (particulate) pollution at ground level in the United States originates from regional sources and only a small amount is ...
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November 17th, 2007 - 4:40 pm ICT by admin
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Washington , Nov 17 (ANI): A new study by NASA has estimated that aerosol (particulate) pollution at ground level in the United States originates from regional sources and only a small amount ...
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