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Biofuels made from corn have serious drawbacks -- land conversion from forest to agriculture creates a huge carbon debt. But any diesel vehicle can be made to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO), a recycled waste product that produces lower emissions.

Hey, you, environmentalist: Want the greenest wheels going but find yourself lacking $109,000 for a Tesla Roadster? Despair not! There's a vehicular option that makes a Prius seem like a gas guzzler and can save you major bucks, too. (Here's the only catc

The Great Salt Lake is so briny that swimmers bob in the water like corks. It is teeming with tiny shrimp that were sold for years in the back of comic books as magical "sea monkeys." And, for reasons scientists cannot explain, it is heavily laden with to

If you want to have the smallest impact on the environment when you go, which do you choose: cremation or burial?

Oliver Tickell: We must stop pandering to special interests, and try a new, post-Kyoto strategy. On a planet 4C hotter, its all over folks.

A start-up is betting on a clever combination of technologies--solar panels and thermoelectronics--to turn clean electricity into refrigeration in developing countries. Read this blog post by Martin LaMonica on Green Tech.

Many of the product press releases I’m emailed claim a ‘green’ angle which is often false. Today’s is for a July 4th Room and Board special, focusing on American made goods:

The much-anticipated game update will address how cities are built with the environment in mind.