Billionaire owner of Virgin Airlines, Richard Branson has pledged his air and rail empire profits to the development of a sustainable bio-fuel. In Feb. one of his planes will make the first flight using 20% biofuel.

Bio-diesel made from algae is being produced by a California company and will be featured in a documentary aired at Sundance, Utah.

Food prices are skyrocketing. Arable land is becoming scarce. And forests continue to disappear across the globe. The world must decide between affordable food and biofuels.

Hawaiian activists are urging a hearing on a bill that would put a 10-year moratorium on experiments with genetically modified taro.

Concerns over genetically modified foods have failed to make much impact in the United States

Children who consume high levels of diary products may have a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer in adulthood

Producing biofuels from a fast-growing grass delivers vast savings of carbon dioxide emissions compared with petrol, a large-scale study has suggested.

Another study has shown the obvious – taking exercise, drinking moderately, eating sufficient fruit and vegetables and not smoking can add as much as 14 years to your life, a study has found.

In addition to causing cancer, second-hand smoke also can cause allergies in children, which can lead to other health problems.

Today, we’re all lab rats in an uncontrolled, unregulated mass human experiment the results of which are unknown. Once GM seeds are introduced to an area, the genie is out of the bottle for keeps.

Instead of supporting energy efficiency and truly clean energy such as wind, solar, GeoExchange and methane produced by biomass, governments are supporting the insane use of food crops for fuel.

New research on farm women has shown that contact with some commonly used pesticides may increase their risk of allergic asthma.

Until a few months ago, the production of crop-based fuels in Germany was supported with generous subsidies – not any more.