Seattle's Mast Reforestation has engineered a solution for disposing trees destroyed in wildfires, locking away their carbon ...

Policymakers are rethinking biomass as new research shows wood pellets may increase carbon emissions rather than reduce them.

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 ...

Tropical forests are among the planet’s most powerful natural climate tools, yet after logging or pasture use they can take decades to recover their biomass and biodiversity. New research suggests ...

The Senate’s draft of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) proposes several material changes to Section 45Q of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) that would significantly affect carbon capture and storage ...

Lawmakers are trying to keep the Black River power plant at Fort Drum from closing by changing the state’s definition of renewable energy to include the burning of wood, known as forest biomass. 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 – ...

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

Tropical forests have long been treated as slow, patient allies in the fight against climate change, quietly locking away ...

Restoring degraded forests to boost biodiversity, store carbon and reconnect fragmented habitats is a burgeoning area of tropical forest conservation. But uncertainty remains around the long-term ...

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 ...