Waste biomass created by forestry work, crop production and wildfire mitigation is often simply burned, releasing the carbon ...

a pyramid of biomass shows the collective mass of organisms at each stage. For example, in a forest a pyramid of numbers might show a single tree feeding loads of caterpillars, which can feed ...

Plants are commonly used as “feedstock” to generate biomass energy; examples are switchgrass, copra, cotton, sunflowers, palm nuts, wheat, sugar cane, canola, rice, and algae. Trees are also ...

"In South Africa part of the problem is that owners of such biomass are not managing the resource effectively and therefore opportunities for energy generation are foregone. "There are also examples ...

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in Salzburg, we took a field trip to a few examples of biomass in rural Austria. The country is over 40 percent forested, and over half of the forest is owned by ...

Lots of other questions have been raised about the sustainability of biomass power. For example, researchers have raised concerns that the wood needed for biomass production takes up precious land ...

It’s easy to argue about how fast those flows are happening, she said, and that’s the most complex question surrounding biomass. But she argued that, if left alone, trees would continue to ...