GCB Bioenergy

This month, we celebrate our first issue of the year with a special issue on research that was presented at a 2015 conference, Perennial Biomass Crops for a Resource-Constrained World.The research highlighted in this issue focuses on the growth and utilization of second generation, non-food bioenergy crops

This month, choosing the right feedstocks for bioenergy systems, determining efficient harvest practices for biofuels and investment risk of bioenergy production.

This month, a new way to recycle phosphorus, how paludiculture can help reduce carbon loss and an analysis of the effects of genotypic diversity on biomass production.

This month, how perennial grass production could lead to regional cooling, the link between biofuel production and the sustainable development of countries and the environmental benefits of switchgrass-derived ethanol.

This month, the effects of carbon dioxide on rice straw; analyzing the decomposition of biochar and what drives the activity of microbial enzymes in various bioenergy systems.

This month, a study analyzing the effects of harvesting forest biomass, findings that could help sugarcane become more widely used and a consistent methodology for making carbon payback calculations.

This month, how to make bioenergy models more realistic, how bioenergy could replace acres placed in conservation and the effects of planting different types of bioenergy crops on the soil organic carbon building rates.

This month, a study quantifying bioenergy crops greenhouse gas intensity when grown on marginal land, advanced bioenergy crops' water use to corn, and the accuracy of a soil and water impact model for advanced bioenergy feedstocks.

This month, how a bioenergy plant called Sorghum and evaluates how it performs in a desert, federal and state laws surrounding bioenergy plants' invasive risk. and bioenergy's potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In GCB-Bioenergy's July Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore how advanced bioenergy crops impact water quality, a new planting technique for Miscanthus and at how burnt bioenergy crops might help with other crops surviving drought conditions.

In GCB-Bioenergy's April Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore three featured articles. The first article looks at the environmental impacts of harvesting wheat residue in Australia. In our second article, we look at Brazil and how it was able to reduce the production costs of ethanol. Lastly, our third article looks at a potential advanced biofuel, and how the use of a certain type of fertilizer affects it.

In GCB-Bioenergy's December Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore charcoal and the trade-offs between its different benefits as a soil amendment tool, the biofuel potential of sweet corn's residue and crop residue data to support future bioenergy policy in northern China.

In GCB-Bioenergy's February Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore Miscanthus, a bioenergy crop, and the lack its lack of genetic diversity - palm oil, a rapidly expanding crop in the tropics, and the potential consequences of this expansion on the global carbon cycle. And the pros and cons of using corn harvest leftovers for bioenergy.

In GCB-Bioenergy's September Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore the potential of using a slurry of manure and crop byproducts on patty fields in China and we look at a method of maintaining large-scale production of biofuel crops in Australia.

IIn GCB-Bioenergy's June Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore three featured articles.

In GCB-Bioenergy's Special Issue on Biodiversity podcast we explore how the increasing commercial use of bioenergy crops will affect biodiversity.

In GCB-Bioenergy's Special Issue Round Up Podcast, we explore supply and demand of bioenergy in Great Britain with University of Aberdeen Professor Pete Smith.

In GCB-Bioenergy's Virtual Special Issue on Miscanthus podcast, we explore the environmental impacts of the bioenergy crop with the guest editor of the journal, University of Illinois Associate Professor Tom Voigt.

We explore three featured articles. The long term yields of two bioenergy crops, Miscanthus and Switchgrass. How researchers are investigating using broken foliage to develop bioenergy. And how large scale planting of biofuel crops could increase the production of disease-carrying mosquitos.

The latest Issue Round Up looks at how climate change will affect switchgrass, the environmental impacts of planting this grass on a large scale, as well as management techniques for bioenergy crop growth and the reduction of environmental impacts.