Brazil solved this problem with cars fuelled by sugar-cane biodiesel, but there’s not enough sugar cane grown here to copy ...

A mechanical engineer in Barbados is turning rotting seaweed into biofuel that can power cars and tourism in Barbados without ...

Researchers around the world are developing new types of alternative fuels, which could end up being the saviour of the ...

Chilean economic development corporation (CORFO) announced an investment of 7 million US dollars towards a seaweed-based bio-ethanol project spearheaded by Chile and U.S. scientists.

Biofuels are controversial because they are often produced from food crops or grown on farmland, but a common algae found in abundance around coastlines and clogging up beaches may be the answer. It ...

where there's interest in developing industrialised seaweed production for future biofuels. Aboard the harvesting boat the skipper controls a mechanical arm that lifts lines from the water.

Soon, mounds of unsightly sargassum – carried by currents from the Sargasso Sea and linked to climate change – were carpeting ...

Our goal is to convert a species of brown seaweed, called sargassum, that grows naturally in our oceans into valuable ...