One cost of the bitter cold may not show up until Spring -- and involves your plants. With the mild winters we've had, garden centers say people have put in more "marginal" shrubs -- varieties that ...

Land unfit for food crops can be prime real estate for biofuel plants—and could produce an estimated 5.5 billion gallons of ethanol in the Midwest alone. In the current issue of Nature, a team of ...

Marginal lands ­-- those unsuited for food crops -- can serve as prime real estate for meeting the U.S. alternative energy production goals. Marginal lands represent a huge untapped resource to grow ...