Reuters: Royal Dutch Shell Plc is to fund a project that aims to produce transport fuel from algae, as biofuel production from palm oil and crops are increasingly criticised for causing deforestation and higher food prices. Oil major Shell said on Tuesday it would build a pilot facility in Hawaii to grow marine algae from which it would extract vegetable oil that would be converted into a form of diesel for use in trucks and cars. The Anglo-Dutch company said the research plant, …