The more, the merrier: Mixing plant species for benefits
Cedar tree rings archive Amazon rainfall data
University of Leeds-led research has used tree rings from eight cedar trees in Bolivia to unlock a 100-year history of rainfall across the Amazon basin, which contains the world's largest river system.
Oct 01, 2012
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Reading a history book of the sea: The chemical memory of seawater
Water does not forget, says Prof. Boris Koch, a chemist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association. Irrespective of what happens in the sea: whether the sun shines, algae bloom ...
Oct 01, 2012
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Growing better poplars for biofuels
(Phys.org)—It took mankind millennia of painstaking trial and error to breed hardier, healthier food crops.
Sep 20, 2012
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Water-wise biofuel crop study to alter plants metabolic, photosynthesis process
Putting the water-use-efficient and turbo-charged photosynthesis from plants such as agave into woody biomass plants such as poplar can hedge against predicted long-term increases in temperatures and reduced ...
Sep 14, 2012
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Finding suitable sites for large-scale algal biofuel plants
(Phys.org)—Scientists have for the first time identified a number of WA sites capable of producing large quantities of commercial biofuel from microalgae.
Sep 10, 2012
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Ecosystems cope with stress more effectively the greater the biodiversity
Trade-offs between water for food and for curbing climate change
Earth's growing human population needs fresh water for drinking and food production. However, fresh water is also needed for the growth of biomass, which acts as a sink of carbon dioxide and thus could help mitigate climate ...
Aug 31, 2012
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Discovery of plant gene lays groundwork for improved biofuel processing
(Phys.org)—Since 2007, researchers at the BioEnergy Science Center, one of three Department of Energy-funded research centers, have partnered to figure out how to break down plants so that they easily release ...
Aug 28, 2012
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New estimate of living biomass: One third less life on planet Earth
Estimates of the total mass of all life on Earth should be reduced by about one third, based on the results of a study by a team of scientists at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography ...
Aug 27, 2012
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Study finds increased biomass in West Africa despite forty year drought
(Phys.org)—Researchers from Ghana and the UK have found that contrary to what might be expected, biomass in West Africa has been increasing during the ongoing forty year drought, leading the trees there ...
Aug 27, 2012
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Researchers explore a sustainable bio-based chemical economy
With cyanobacteria, carbon dioxide and sunlight, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers aims to create a sustainable alternative source of commodity chemicals currently derived from an ever-decreasing supply ...
Aug 24, 2012
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Biofuel from biomass one step closer to reality thanks to discovery to manipulate 'hot' microbes
(Phys.org)—The single most important barrier to the use of lignocellulosic biomass such as switchgrass, populous, sorghum and miscanthus for production of biofuels is the resistant nature of the biomass ...
Aug 24, 2012
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Scientists create low-lignin plants with improved potential for biofuel production
(Phys.org) -- Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have created a new enzyme that effectively “masks” the synthetic precursors of lignin, a plant cell wall component that makes plant biomass ...
Aug 06, 2012
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New Cuban biodiesel looks to 'bellyache bush'
A new biodiesel plant in Cuba -- the first of its type -- is turning seeds from the so-called "bellyache bush" into a green energy source, it was announced Monday.
Jul 16, 2012
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