Allowing the sale of gasoline that’s 15% ethanol year-round won’t have much impact on gas prices, but recent research shows that growing corn for fuel affects the climate – for the worse.
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New developments in microalgae cultivation are helping to propel the potential of renewable biofuels to combat climate change.
The US has required motor fuels to contain 10% biofuels since 2005. As this program nears a key milestone in 2022, farm advocates want to expand it while critics want to pare it back or repeal it.
The hidden costs of industrial food production include immense health and environmental impacts. These include millions of deaths, climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss.
How do we ensure solutions to climate change doesn’t make biodiversity loss worse? Fifty of the world’s leading researchers on biodiversity and climate have sought to answer this question.
Soot from aeroplane exhausts can linger in the atmosphere, seeding ice clouds which trap heat.
A complete switch to biofuels is neither feasible nor desirable, but they could replace some fossil fuels in transport and heating. If biofuels are produced from waste products, that’s even better.
Making biofuels from crops grown on land poses trade-offs between food and fuel. A new study looks offshore.
Our research identified three key lessons.
You can reduce your fuel consumption by 15-20% with improved driving habits alone – reducing emissions and saving money at the same time.
Lightweight, flexible materials can be used to make health-monitoring wearable devices, but powering the devices is a challenge. Using fuel cells instead of batteries could make the difference.
We analysed what the world’s top 58 airlines – such as American Airlines, British Airways and Qantas – are doing about climate change. Even the best airlines are not doing anywhere near enough.
As the notion of flight shame is taking off around the world, emissions from aviation are making a small but growing contribution to global warming.
We can’t decarbonise the whole transport sector with just batteries - sustainable fuels are essential.
Many current and former US military leaders call climate change a serious national security threat, but few of them mention the Defense Department’s big carbon footprint.
We don’t notice the plant species we’re losing, but we won’t be able to ignore the effect of their loss on our supply of food and medicine.
Palm oil production is a leading cause of deforestation in Asia, but an EU ban may make matters worse.
Jokowi’s re-election may put the global biodiversity at risk
The development of a hydrogen charging station has made it possible to run vehicles without producing greenhouse gases.
Vehicles made before 2001 could suffer fuel system or engine damage if they’re run on E15.
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Professor of Agronomy (Agriculture), University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Energy Resource Economics, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Professor and Director Centre for Agricultural Engineering, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Chemistry, Monash University
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
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Economist, Fenner School, Australian National University
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor, Energy and Climate Mitigation, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Assoc Prof. Renewable Energy, Monash University
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Research Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University
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Professor Spatial Transformation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen
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Professor of Forestry Operations, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Sustainable Chemistry, Griffith University