When plants breathe in carbon from the atmosphere and store it in their leaves, branches, trunks and roots, they help the Earth maintain a carbon balance—a crucial component to a steady climate. While ...

Biomass pyrolysis modelling and process optimization have become central to the development of renewable carbon value chains, offering routes to bio-oils, syngas and biochar with minimal environmental ...

The Integrated Energy and Climate Program (IEKP) and the national Biomass Action Plan of the Federal Republic of Germany have set ambitious goals for the expansion of biomass energy conversion by 2020 ...

The vitality of grassland ecosystems, central to the global carbon cycle and nutrient exchange, is often gauged by their aboveground biomass (AGB). Variations in AGB reflect grassland productivity and ...

When it is completed, later this summer, the UK’s Drax Power Station biomass facility will become the largest dedicated cofiring project of its kind in the world. As U.S. coal-fired generators come ...

CHICO — Butte County could be in a place to be a leader in biomass and co-generation for California. Considering the role that biomass and co-generation has in a state where wildfires consumed more ...

A new study paints a vivid image of how forests developed over centuries and contribute to Earth's carbon balance -- a crucial component to maintaining a steady global climate. The study reconstructed ...