by Ayurella Horn-Muller | Nov 22, 2025 | Agriculture, biofuels, brazil, Climate Crisis, COP30, News Analysis
First the plant stalk is harvested, shredded, and crushed. The extracted juice is then combined with bacteria and yeast in large bioreactors, where the sugars are metabolized and converted into ethanol and carbon dioxide. From there, the liquid is typically distilled to maximize ethanol concentration, before it is blended with gasoline. You know the final products as biofuels — mostly made…
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by Dan Ross | Oct 23, 2025 | Agriculture, Biodiversity Crisis, California, Climate Crisis, DOGE, DOGE cuts, Drinking Water, fresh water, groundwater, groundwater depletion, India, Iran, News, resource scarcity, Water, Water crisis
India is the thirstiest user of groundwater in the world, sucking up more of this valuable resource than both the U.S. and China combined. Indeed, the country relies on groundwater (like lakes and rivers) to keep its crops irrigated, its industries running, and its people quenched. In some rural communities, as much as 85 percent of their drinking water is pumped from underground.
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