Biofuels 'do more harm than good'
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Plans to make cars greener by using fuel made from crops and animal fat are in doubt
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Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, the spread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and over-exploitation of the oceans are destroying Earth's ability to sustain life, the environmental group WWF warned in a new report Thursday.
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Using plants to feed our fuel needs may be a great idea, and the biofuel goldrush could be a moneyspinner for several poor countries, but some experts warn people may go hungry as food prices rise.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 6 (IPS) - A body tasked with shaping European Union policy on  biofuels is dominated by companies with a vested interest in  promoting this source of energy, environmentalists have claimed.
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Flatbread prices rising in Mexico Demand for eco-friendly bio-fuels in the US is being blamed for a massive rise in the price of corn in Mexico. The recent 400 per cent increase in the price of a tortilla has driven thousands of Mexico's poorest people onto the streets in protest.â¦
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Chemists in the United States say they have broken new ground in biofuels, transforming plant sugar into a liquid fuel that packs 40-percent more energy than ethanol and appears to have fewer of its drawbacks.
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A UN expert says growing crops to make biofuels to replace petrol is a crime against humanity.
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The EU should abandon its biofuels targets because they are damaging the environment, a committee of MPs says.
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A U.N. expert on Friday called the growing practice of converting food crops into biofuel "a crime against humanity," saying it is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry.
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Energy poses one of the greatest threats facing humanity this century, the world's leading academies of science warned Monday, highlighting the peril of oil wars and climate change driven by addiction to fossil fuels.
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Living near a fuel station may quadruple the risk of acute leukemia in children, research published on Thursday showed.
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Sugarcane farming has made the country's ethanol competitive with gasoline&#8212;but some say a biofuel boom could mean bust for Amazon rain forests.
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Biofuels may have a role to play in curbing climate change, Britain's Royal Society concludes, but many questions remain.
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Producing biofuels from a fast-growing grass emits up to 94% less carbon dioxide than petrol, a US study finds.
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Ethanol is the currently the star of biofuels but new mandates will spur development of synthetic biofuels that mimic fossil fuels, says policy analyst.
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A visit to church may be good for the soul but not so good for the lungs, a new study shows. Scientists from Maastricht University found that burning candles and incense in church can release dangerous levels
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Germany taxes, rather than subsidies, biodiesel. That's killing the industry.