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New biofuels process promises to meet all US transportation needs

...ing biomass could come from sources including fuel wood from forests, wastes left over from wood processing mills and paper mills, and construction and demolition debris. The process also offers...

New sucker-footed bat discovered in Madagascar

...subsistence agricultural activities and to provide wood energy for urban zones. The island, which is found off the eastern coast of Africa, remains one of the most critically threatened areas in the world, in terms of biodiversity. Madagascar has a higher level of endemism (with plants and animals found n...

Super-fermenting fungus genome sequenced

...stry by providing new outlets for agricultural and wood harvest residues.? Ligonocellulosic biomass, a...“feedstocks?as agricultural waste, paper and pulp, wood chips, grasses, or trees such as poplar, recently sequenced by DOE JGI. Under current strategies fo...

Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production

...talks. Waste products such as grass clippings and wood chips—once thought too difficult to turn into etha...l from plant materials such as the corn stalks and wood chips is challenging because the plants?cellulose is a very tough substance to break down, making fo...

The kapok connection -- Study explains rainforest similarities

...ebrated in Buddhist temples and cultivated for its wood and cottony fibers, the kapok tree now is upsetting an idea that biologists have clung to for decades: the notion that African and South American rainforests are similar because the continents were connected 96 million years ago. Research by Univers...

Nurtured chimps rake it in

...d’ rakes. Each rake head had a rigid side made of wood (functional) and another side made of flimsy cloth (non-functional). The reward was placed in front of the rigid side of one rake, and in front of the flimsy side of the second rake. The animals who picked the rake with the food reward on the rigid...

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