AMES, Iowa – On a whim, Iowa State University’s Robert C. Brown asked students to crank up the oxygen. Brown and the engineers in his research group had worked for years to develop a thermochemical ...

The University of Twente is helping the paper industry to convert paper sludge -- the largest waste stream from paper factories -- into bio-oils and raw materials suitable for re-use. At the end of ...

An early-stage company spun out of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, plans to commercialize a catalytic process for converting cellulosic biomass into five of the chemicals found in gasoline.

Come August, negotiators will congregate in Geneva for yet another round of talks on hammering out a Global Plastics Treaty, under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme. They will pick ...