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 ...

New biomass power plants continue to come online in Japan, requiring an ever-greater quantity of imported fuel. The government’s feed-in tariff scheme, which has been tweaked but not canceled, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The future of fuel is practical, sustainable and green, and Mississippi State’s Department of Sustainable Bioproducts is committed to discovering solutions that will power tomorrow’s ...

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 ...

The port of Longview, Washington has served as a bustling hub of commerce for more than a century. Ships carrying everything from grain to wind turbine parts pass through it every day headed for ...

Biomass as a renewable energy source has garnered increasing attention due to its dual promise of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing an alternative to fossil fuels. Recent research has ...

Scientists have come up with a lithium ion capacitor using electrodes produced from wood particles that are discarded as waste in sawmills. This biomass is both readily available and sustainable, ...

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A firefighter clears loose brush from around a Sequoia tree in Mariposa Grove in Yosemite National Park, Calif., in this July 2022 photo provided by the National Park Service. (Garrett Dickman/NPS via ...

Paper manufacturing stands at a critical juncture where environmental responsibility intersects with operational efficiency. The industry’s energy-intensive processes—pulping, pressing, drying, ...

SPRINGFIELD — The City Council will continue its 14-year battle to try to block a proposed wood-burning biomass plant by appealing a recent court decision that restores rescinded building permits. The ...