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Russia's invasion of Ukraine is threatening global food security and supply chains. The shocks to food systems are set to intensify amid climate change. Is greener farming the answer?

Big Oil Gets Another Well-Deserved Beat Down. The recent spate of oil industry sponsored news stories and editorials are again trying to claim that ethanol contributes more harmful emissions to the atmosphere than gasoline.

Continuing to make sense out of nonsense

A new study has found that corn-based ethanol, the main source of supposedly green ethanol fuel in the United States, may actually be worse for the environment than regular gasoline. The new [...]

The U.S. wood pellet industry is the largest supplier for European wood-burning power plants, which scientists argue may undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse...

Biotech company aims to fight food spoilage

Ethanol is seen as key to the global switch to cleaner energy. But in one of the worlds top producers, Brazil, concerns over slavery in the supply chain are rising - along with the heat that workers must contend with

If UNLs "methane barn" can help reduce the beef industry’s global environmental hoofprint, it could one day help save the planet. It could also help preserve Nebraska’s biggest agricultural sector.

Tweet CNN published an interesting story today about European environmentalism and the law of unintended consequences. It’s a lengthy story but the core of it is that back in 2009 the European Union embraced a plan (the Renewable Energy Directive) to reduced its reliance on fossil fuels and instead depend on renewable energy sources. In most people’s minds that would refer to solar panels, windmills and maybe hydroelectric power. But one of the sources specifically cited in the document w...

COVID-19 and the resulting economic crisis have highlighted and exacerbated the plight of American farmers, while also threatening already