The right blend

Ethanol, a safer alternative to MTBE, will now be mixed with petrol to curb emissions. Lopamudra Banerjee analyses the impact of this environment-…

Empty Promises

The high-level conference at Rome was called to find a way out of the global food crisis. A series of consultations with experts preceded this …

Cosmetic concern

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

Germany in transition

From an economy addicted to coal and nuclear energy, Germany is fast transforming into one driven by renewables. Its aim is to demonstrate to the …

Nature cure from India

Food vs fuel

Sugarcane fields not for Shell

Letter>> Biofuel ÔÇó Brazil

Bottlenecks aplenty

BRAZIL

Going for ethanol

Sugar for oil

Energy crisis jacks up prices, creates supply problems

Price isn't right

IOC and sugar factories disagree on ethanol pricing

A sputtering start

Likely for green fuel drive

Dispirited agreement

Reviving the ethanol programme, on paper

South Asia

Syngenta for import of its genetically modified maize

Syngenta charts new GMpath

Unhealthy fuel

Plant pests biofuelled

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ACCORDING TO REPORT

Financing emissions from jets and cows

Environmental scientist Robert Goodland , who served the World Bank Group between 1978 and 2001 is credited with authoring some of the Bank's …

EU biofuel targets fuelling inflation: study

Land meant for food crops being used to grow biofuel crops; may push up food prices by 36 per cent by 2020

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