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Science - Not Industry - Should Guide Rules for Biofuels ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, biofuels, globalwarming, nature, habitat, protection, humans, wildlife )

Cher
- 131 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
If pursued wisely, biofuels - such as ethanol - have the potential to play a pivotal role in reducing global warming emissions from vehicles. But research indicates that conventional biofuels can result in substantial global warming pollution when
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European Commission Must Stop Funding Aviation Biofuel Development ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, biofuels, destruction, habitat, protection, nature, wildlife )

Cher
- 143 days ago - globalwarming.change.org
Agrofuels could be used in aircraft within the next 1-5 years, creating yet another market which will cause more climate change, deforestation, evictions and hunger. For the aviation industry, this is another way to continue unsustainable and highly
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Biofuels May Speed Up, Not Slow Global Warming: Study
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SirRobert
- 286 days ago - google.com
The use of crop-based biofuels could actually speed up rather than slow down global warming, by fueling the destruction of rainforests.
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Grow Your Own
Environment  (tags: environment, biofuels )

Michael
- 519 days ago - enn.com
Amyris is famous in the world of tropical medicine for applying the latest biotechnological tools to the manufacture of artemisinin, an antimalarial drug that is normally extracted from a Chinese vine.
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Real Green Goods or Greenwashed Sales Pitch?
Environment  (tags: fluorescent light bulbs, biofuels, polar bears, environment, green goods, protection, conservation, climate-change, nature, habitat, greenhousegases, wildlife, world )

Cher
- 606 days ago - commongroundmag.com
These days we're constantly bombarded with media messages touting the latest and greatest eco-saviors. Compact fluorescent light bulbs save the polar bears! Bamboo clothes redefine eco-agriculture and couture fashion! Mineral makeup pretties-up your face
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Biofuels Disaster to Make the Planet Boil
Environment  (tags: loss of wildlife habitat, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, environment, habitat, wildanimals, wildlife, biofuels, destruction, climate-change, greenhousegases, CO2emissions, nature, ecosystems )

Cher
- 638 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Full page adverts, run by the RSPB in The Times and Guardian have spelled out to the government just how destructive the world's biofuels' policies have become.They warn of the loss of wildlife habitats to produce fuels whose manufacture may be hastening
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Biofuels Switch a Mistake, Say Researchers.
Environment  (tags: biofuels, carbonemissions, climate, conservation, destruction, eco-friendly, ecosystems, energy, environment, forests, extinction, globalwarming, greenhousegases, habitat, pollution, politics, protection, research, science, scientists, Sustainabililty, tr )

Michelle
- 823 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Increasing production of biofuels to combat climate change will release between two and nine times more carbon gases over the next 30 years than fossil fuels, according to the first comprehensive analysis of emissions from biofuels.
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Conservation More Effective Than Biofuels for Fighting Global Warming
Environment  (tags: deforestation, biofuels, ethanol, forests, climate change )

Rhett
- 834 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Conserving forests and grasslands may be a more effective land-use strategy for fighting climate change than growing biofuel crops argues a new paper. Comparing emissions from various fuel crops versus carbon storage in natural ecosystems, Righelato and
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Tropical Forest Felled for Biofuels, Ecologists Say
Environment  (tags: Overconsumption, biofuels, poaching, deforestation, humans refusing to change habits, energy, climate change, resource waste, clearcutting, logging )

Rooibos
- 954 days ago - planetark.com
Tropical rain forest is being cut down and burned to make way for soy and palm plantations destined to provide plant-based diesel for Europe's fuel tanks, environmentalists said on Wednesday.
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