Forest advocates have long warned that burning forest biomass to make energy — touted as a climate solution by the forestry industry — releases more carbon emissions than coal does per unit of ...

For years, a battle has raged between EU nations that claim their forest biomass certification policies safeguard against ...

Force Energy Systems CEO, Etienne Patenaude, answers questions during a tour of the new Tuolumne BioEnergy facility in Sonora, Ca. The recent opening wraps up the three-tiered community and watershed ...

The adoption of management techniques that reduce the impact of timber harvesting can promote the recovery of tropical forests, such as the Amazon, and store carbon in the long term while maintaining ...

The EU Court of Justice has upheld rules allowing forest bioenergy projects to qualify as “sustainable” under the bloc’s Sustainable Finance Taxonomy, dealing a blow to NGOs that sought to overturn ...

Carrying a novel P-band synthetic aperture radar, ESA’s Biomass Earth Explorer satellite mission delivers completely new information on forest height and above-ground forest biomass from space. This ...

NASA’s GEDI mission has reached a major milestone with the release of its newest data product, which provides the first near-global estimate of aboveground forest biomass and the carbon it stores – ...

Illustration of Biomass in orbit with its mesh reflector deployed. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a satellite on Tuesday that will "weigh" Earth's ...

The integration of traditional forest inventory techniques with advanced remote sensing technologies has revolutionised the estimation of biomass in forest ecosystems. This interdisciplinary approach ...

In the first quantitative roadmap covering the entire forest-biomass value chain, researchers show that integrating selective harvesting, residue valorisation and advanced catalytic refining could ...

Gloria Alonso Cruz had only just started working on environmental justice issues at a community organization in Stockton, California, when she learned about a proposal to sell wood pellets from the ...