The baking tins and muffin cups lining the countertops in a corner of Ronald Holser’s cluttered laboratory were filled with curious substances resembling angel food cakes and loaves of bread.

The world's richest corporations and finest minds spend billions trying to solve the problem of carbon emissions, but three fishing buddies in North Wales believe they have cracked it.

The term "biofuels" suggests renewable abundance: clean, green, sustainable assurance about technology and progress.

BP is leading a project to make ethanol from wheat at a 200m plant in Hull that may fullfil a third of Britain's requirements from 2009. Sean O'Grady looks at the future for biofuels

The rapidly growing biofuel market will keep farm commodity prices high over the next decade, said a key study by the Organization for Economic Development (OECD). Biofuels will have a major impact on the farming sector.

The U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday it will invest up to $375 million in three new research centers that will develop cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels that will help reduce America's gasoline demand.

Government plans to subsidize ethanol are making petroleum refineries think twice about investing in expensive capacity increases, creating a bottleneck in US refining capacity and driving up prices.

Biofuels like ethanol can help reduce global warming and create jobs for the rural poor, but the benefits may be offset by serious environmental problems and increased food prices for the hungry, the U.N. said Tuesday in its first major report on bioenergy.

Biofuels like ethanol can help reduce global warming and create jobs for the rural poor, but the benefits may be offset by serious environmental problems and increased food prices for the hungry, the U.N. said Tuesday in its first major report on bioenergy.

This company is working on developing a process of turning algae into biofuels.