FORT MYERS, Fla. — What some see as the biofuel of the future starts out as short, thick stems with a few leaves sticking out at sharp angles. But in just a few years, they will be tall, leafy trees ...

Renewable energy, it turns out, does grow on trees. The fruit pods plucked from jatropha trees have seeds that produce clean-burning diesel fuel. But unlike corn and other biofuel sources, the ...

My friend in Rangoon is a busy man. He manages a couple of companies in Burma’s commercial capital, helps raise his children and regularly makes merit at a Buddhist temple. He also spends time tending ...

From Congress to The Colbert Report, people are talking about the Midwestern drought and debating whether it makes sense to convert the country's shrinking corn supplies into ethanol to power our cars ...

MALEGAON, India (Reuters) - The glow from burning jatropha seed torches has often saved Maruti Chindu from treading on snakes, but now he carefully nurtures them for a use that he never imagined ...

Kenya has embraced a hardy bush called jatropha curcas as the heart of a nascent biofuel industry. Proponents predict a future in which jatropha oil will power commercial jets and cars. But in Kenya, ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mission NewEnergy Limited (NASDAQ:MNEL) (ASX:MBT), a global provider of environmentally sustainable biofuels, today announced that the Company has received the ...

Harare — "JATROPHA mutsvairo wekutsvaira nhamo," sings Mrs Nyasha Gunyanja with a high pitched voice undeterred by the scorching heat in the Nyamanyora area of Mudzi district, some 240 kilometres east ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Planting trees in coastal deserts could capture carbon dioxide, reduce harsh desert temperatures, ...

Kakamega,Kenya:An unknown disease has foiled efforts to introduce a new tree species in Kakamega County. The Jatropha tree, known to contain biofuel in its fruit is being attacked by an unknown ...