Akifumi Ogino

TL;DR: The study results suggest that biomass utilization in coal GS should be considered for its potential to cost-effectively mitigate GHGs from coal-based electricity in the near term.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the environmental impacts of a beef cow-calf system using a life cycle assessment (LCA) method and investigated the effects of scenarios to reduce environmental impacts on the LCA results.

TL;DR: A shorter feeding length resulted in lower environmental impacts in all the environmental impact categories examined in the current study, such as global warming and acidification, although there was a difference in effect of reducing environmental impacts among the categories.

TL;DR: The results from the DGGE and clone library analyses were consistent and demonstrated that the community structures of ETM enriched with the four hexose-based substrates consisted of a single species, closely related to a hydrogen-producing extreme thermophile, Caldoanaerobacter subterraneus, with diversity at subspecies levels.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed and compared the environmental impacts of extensive and intensive beef production systems in northeastern Thailand, using life cycle assessment (LCA), and the authors defined the functional unit as 1 kg of marketed beef cattle.