Air New Zealand has just become the latest airline to float the skies using bio fuels in a move that is hailed (by some) as a huge advance in the struggle to find an alternative to the oil based economy. Many however are justifiably concerned that the increase in plantations Read more…

Energy biofuels, palm

The loss of organic matter is one of the various threats to the soils that have been identified by the European Commission. Soils act as vast carbon sinks and could therefore become emitters of green house gasses when the carbon holding organisms decay. Read more…

Soil carbon