Researchers are growing four different cultivars of strawberries at the Alliant Energy Solar Farm as part of their study on agrivoltaics. Under a clear, sunny sky in Ames, the chirps of crickets and ...

If you have lived in a home with a trampoline in the backyard, you may have observed the unreasonably tall grass growing under it. This is because many crops, including these grasses, actually grow ...

Aerial view of farmers tending to soybeans under solar panels at an agrivoltaic farm. (Photo by Zhang Zhenxiang/VCG via Getty Images) Plants like sunlight, it helps them grow. So, it is understandable ...

In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows, say researchers from the University of Surrey. Energy crops can be used for heat, electricity and even ...

Researchers have planted a variety of crops amid solar panels at the University of Illinois to test agrivoltaics — an emerging system where farming and energy production happen simultaneously.

Solar panels are no longer just lining barn roofs and field edges, they are rising directly above rows of vegetables, orchards and vineyards, reshaping how food and power are produced on the same ...

Deploying solar panels and growing crops on the same land could be a solution to boost renewable electricity in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, reaching the equivalent of 68% of today’s energy ...

Researchers analyzed the financial and environmental costs and benefits of four biofuels crops used to produce sustainable aviation fuels in the U.S. They found that each feedstock -- corn stover, ...

RIPE Project/Claire Benjamin (photographer), licensed under CC BY 4.0. It seems imperative, then, that we better understand ...

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated the small Soyminas factory, owned by Alves, in March of this year. The following month he opened the first biodiesel plant in the north. Located in ...

Airlines, oil and gas companies and some political leaders are placing big bets on sustainable aviation fuel as a pathway to cut greenhouse gas emissions and meet climate targets, but it remains ...

In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows. In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows, say ...