Biochar—a charcoal-like substance made primarily from agricultural waste products—holds promise for removing emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals from treated wastewater. That's the ...

Developing much-needed products from underutilized agricultural materials such as cheese whey is the goal of a new center opened recently by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Developing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A strain of yeast developed at Purdue University more effectively makes ethanol from agricultural residues that would otherwise be discarded or used as animal feed, and the ...

DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP) is a holding company comprised of The Dow Chemical Company and DuPont with the intent to form strong, independent, publicly traded companies in agriculture, materials science ...

Lactic acid (LA) is an important chemical intermediate for a plethora of products, from medicine to cosmetics to degradable materials, and is the building block for biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA) ...

It takes a lot of raw material to manufacture a car, so if some of that material comes from renewable, eco-friendly sources … well, so much the better. European scientists are going one step further, ...