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Biofuel company caught clearing elephant habitat in Sri Lanka

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

Biofuel boom could lead to life-threatening ozone pollution

Jeremy Hance 9 Jan 2013

E.U. OKs biofuels produced from certified palm oil

Rhett A. Butler 28 Nov 2012

One in eight people suffer from malnutrition worldwide

Jeremy Hance 16 Oct 2012

E.U. may eliminate subsidies for crop-based biofuels

Mongabay.com 13 Sep 2012

Palm oil industry hires lobbying powerhouse to overturn EPA ruling on biofuels

Mongabay.com 18 May 2012

Emissions from deforestation depend on fate of cleared trees

Mongabay.com 14 May 2012

Palm oil industry lobbies EPA to reverse palm oil biofuel findings

Mongabay.com 26 Apr 2012

Surging demand for vegetable oil drives rainforest destruction

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2012

International Bird Area in Kenya saved from conversion into biofuel crop

Jeremy Hance 29 Feb 2012

Big oil makes $137 billion, gives 28 percent back to themselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Feb 2012

Emissions from palm oil biodiesel highest of major biofuels, says EU

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2012

Palm oil does not meet U.S. renewable fuels standard, rules EPA

Mongabay.com 27 Jan 2012

Biofuel breakthrough: kelp could power cars

Mongabay.com 20 Jan 2012

Industrial palm oil production expands at expense of rainforests in Peru

Rhett A. Butler 10 Jan 2012

Biofuel aspirations spur ‘land grabs’ that hurt the poor, says report

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2011

Carbon debt for some biofuels lasts centuries

Jeremy Hance 30 Nov 2011

Palm oil biofuel from peatlands has big climate impact, finds study

Mongabay.com 8 Nov 2011

Five ways to feed billions without trashing the planet

Jeremy Hance 13 Oct 2011

EU’s biofuel push based on ‘flawed’ science

Mongabay.com 10 Oct 2011

Europe should lift duty on RSPO-certified palm oil to encourage use, says Dutch group

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2011

Palm oil, poverty, and conservation collide in Cameroon

Jeremy Hance, Rhett A. Butler 13 Sep 2011
Google Earth image showing deforestation frontier in the Brazilian Amazon.

Could palm oil help save the Amazon? (2011)

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jun 2011

Could palm oil help save the Amazon?

Rhett A. Butler 14 Jun 2011

A new front in the war over palm oil?

Rhett A. Butler 9 May 2011

Sugar cane cools climate when it replaces cattle pasture

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2011

Clean energy investments rise 630% in 7 years

Jeremy Hance 29 Mar 2011

New organization seeks to make biofuels sustainable, but is it possible?

Jeremy Hance 24 Mar 2011

Slow but steady progress on recognizing indigenous land rights is interrupted by commodity boom

Rhett A. Butler 9 Feb 2011

Brazilian mining giant buys Amazon palm oil company

Mongabay.com 3 Feb 2011

Greening the world with palm oil?

Rhett A. Butler 26 Jan 2011

Prairie grass-based biofuels could meet half current fuel demand without affecting forests, food

Mongabay.com 26 Jan 2011

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