Jodi Delapaz

- Buyers from China agreed to buy $5.3 billion worth of U.S. soy, totaling more than 484 million bushels of U.S. soybeans, during a signing ceremony today hosted by the U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC).

A national park focused on green, renewable energy has been getting greener, thanks to used hybrid car batteries.

Ethanol made from algae will be commercially marketed and distributed for the first time in the U.S., thanks to a new, patented technology that uses algae to produce the four most widely used fuels: ethanol, gasoline, jet and diesel fuel.