The world is becoming increasingly conscious of the environment and sustainability, leading to the development and use of bio-based composite materials. These materials are being seen as a replacement ...

Jimmy Brown has lived less than a mile from the Drax wood pellet manufacturing plant in the tiny town of Gloster in Amite ...

The Biomass satellite will measure the trunks, branches and stems of the trees that populate the planet's forests. ESA says ...

At a giant dirt lot off a side road in Emmet County, the air smells sharply of pine. Enormous piles of logs and branches sit ...

A group of scientists has advanced methods for converting lignin, a plentiful organic material, into valuable chemicals.

In the ongoing search for a sustainable and economical source of glucose, researchers found that they could recycle textile ...

There are situations where biomass-fueled energy will emit more carbon than it saves, Sohngen said — for instance, logging ...

Mapping the world's forests, said to include some 1.5 trillion trees, is a big, big job—one that will be made a whole lot ...

The satellite, named Biomass, launched with a rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, New Guinea, and separated from the ...

Using a new radar technique, Biomass can 'see' through clouds and tree canopies down to the forest floor, where most ...

Derived from renewable and waste sources, these innovative next-generation feedstocks offer a sustainable pathway to green ...

Japanese renewables firm Erex has announced the commencement of operations at its 20 MW biomass plant in Vietnam. Located in ...