Overlooked as one of the world’s most effective natural carbon sinks, peatlands are under dire threat from human activity, ...

Planting fast-growing crops, burning them, capturing the released CO2 and storing it: this is being discussed as a way to ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Extreme fire seasons in recent years highlight the urgent need to better understand wildfires within the broader context of climate change. Under climate change, many drivers of wildfires are expected ...

Committee has also suggested real-time crop monitoring, district-level stubble collection centres and biomass incentives for ...

The Energy Secretary struck a deal with the FTSE 250 firm to provide fresh subsidies for its wood-burning biomass site in ...

New subsidies have been announced for the North Yorkshire biomass power plant from 2027, when existing payments are due to ...

The Government has announced that from 2027, when the existing payments for the North Yorkshire biomass power plant are due to run out, a new support scheme will come into effect until 2031 which ...

Drax Group, a key player in the UK’s transition away from coal power, has been found mis-reporting use of primary and old-growth forests in Canada ...

New subsidies have been announced for wood-burning power plant Drax, which the Government said would halve costs for consumers and improve sustainability.

After years of strict bans to curb pollution, China is reversing its zero-tolerance stance on crop burning, allowing ...

2023). For energy purposes, forest biomass should have a high lignin content; the higher this content, the higher the heating value (ESTEVES et al., 2023). Some of the extractives are volatile and ...