Everyone in Kibwezi, a village in southeastern Kenya parched by four years of drought, remembers the promises. It all started in 2000, when the government started preaching the word about a plant ...

Jatropha seeds. The jatropha plant, which grows in extreme weather conditions, consumes more water per capita before its seeds produce biodiesel. Jatropha, the oily plant billed as the answer to ...

Agricultural scientists are in the lab looking for ways to help break Pennsylvania’s dependence on foreign oil. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons user Immersia) Scientists and entrepreneurs are teaming up to ...

Kampala — It may seem weird that a young woman would quit a well-paying job and the comfort of the city, for rural life. But this is what 27-year-old Magdalene Mucite, known to her friends as Maddy, ...

The oil-rich and weedy plant jatropha has been hailed as the most promising source of biofuel on the planet, and one airline has already begun testing a jatropha-derived fuel in its jumbo jets. But a ...

Air New Zealand tests a new biofuels jet fuel blend using jatropha, an eco-friendly alternative for aviation fuel. Discover more! In another step forward for biofuels, a commercial jet took to the ...

KLM, the Dutch airline, has been forced to backtrack from a plan to use oil from jatropha seeds grown in Indonesia for commercial flights. After Friends of the Earth Netherlands (FOE NL) put out a ...