News tagged with forest biomass

Biomass tax credits stabilized wood prices, fueled economic benefits

The first full year of Oregon's tax credits given to biomass collectors and producers — as administered by the Oregon Department of Energy — helped stabilize prices for wood-based fuel, supported ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Carbon mitigation strategy uses wood for buildings first, bioenergy second

Proposals to remove the carbon dioxide caused by burning fossil fuel from the atmosphere include letting commercially managed forests grow longer between harvests or not cutting them at all.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Report provides new analysis of carbon accounting, biomass use, and climate benefits

A recent report provides new ideas regarding carbon and energy benefits forests and forest products provide. The report, Managing Forests Because Carbon Matters: Integrating Energy, Products, and Land Management ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

First renewable energy exchange opens in Amsterdam

Dutch-Belgian energy market provider APX-Endex launched a "biomass exchange" Thursday specialising in trading wood pellets as a source of renewable energy, a venture it said was a world first.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Production of biofuel from forests will increase greenhouse emissions

The largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Reforestation's cooling influence -- a result of farmer's past choices

Decisions by farmers to plant on productive land with little snow enhances the potential for reforestation to counteract global warming, concludes new research from Carnegie's Julia Pongratz and Ken Caldeira. Previous research ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wood products part of winning carbon-emissions equation, researchers say

Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow, so forests have long been proposed as a way to offset climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Vermont capital residents OK wood-heating system

(AP) -- Vermont's capital city is going ahead with a plan to expand state government's wood-fired heating system into city schools and government buildings.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

WHRC debuts detailed maps of forest canopy height and carbon stock for the conterminous US

The Woods Hole Research Center has released the first hectare-scale maps of canopy height, aboveground biomass, and associated carbon stock for the forests and woodlands of the conterminous United States. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Turning forests into fuel: New report outlines promise and limits of biomass energy in the Northeast

Forest biomass could replace as much as one quarter of the liquid fossil fuel now being used for industrial and commercial heating in the Northeastern United States. That's according to a new report released ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Why are vines overtaking the American tropics?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sleeping Beauty's kingdom was overgrown by vines when she fell into a deep sleep. Researchers at the Smithsonian in Panama and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee received more than a ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New boreal forest biomass maps produced from radar satellite data

Having a large-scale boreal forest biomass inventory would allow scientists to understand better the carbon cycle and to predict more accurately Earth's future climate. However, obtaining these maps has been ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow

(PhysOrg.com) -- Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

ESA investigates new methods of mapping tropical forest from space

Tropical rainforests play a crucial role in Earth's carbon cycle by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in biomass. However, mapping these carbon stocks from space poses a huge technical challenge. ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher Nets First Measure of Africa's Coastal Forests

Impoverished fishermen along the coast of tropical African countries like Mozambique and Madagascar may have only a few more years to eke out a profit from one of their nations' biggest agricultural exports. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0