Tons of biomass used to be hauled out of New Mexico to paper mills in the Northwest. Today, Local Energy converts woodchips like these (a pile at the former Duke City Lumber in Espanola) to energy for ...

Biomass use in the European energy system: Feasible solution space to achieve net-negative carbon dioxide emissions (-110 percent compared to 1990). The shaded area shows the possible space, with the ...

As countries search for alternatives to fossil fuels, biomass has gained attention as a renewable energy source capable of ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Enormous swathes of pristine forest are being cut down across Indonesia to supply the rapidly rising international demand for biomass material seen as critical to many ...

Record forest fires, under-utilized agricultural residues like straw and husks and struggling sawmills have left Canada with an abundance of undervalued biomass. If carefully and strategically managed ...

As California works to meet climate and air quality goals, a key to the transition will come from biomass, which is renewable organic material from plants and animals. New research from the UC Davis, ...

The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge, according to a new report on near-term ...

The sustainable management of forest resources has become increasingly critical, not only for mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration but also for producing a suite of renewable ...

The forest biomass industry — cutting forests to make wood pellets to be burned in power plants — will continue booming through 2030, says a new report. By then, pellets made in the U.S., Canada, EU ...