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Newly discovered cold-tolerant plants from Siberia could promote clean bioenergy

  • Written by Charles Pignon, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A stand of _Miscanthus_ x _giganteus_ at the University of Illinois's Energy Farm. Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois, CC BY-SA

Climate change is an urgent threat to societies around the world, driven by carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels such as oil. One of the most effective ways to curb emissions is to replace these energy sources...

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