A major political and environmental dispute is heating up as the forestry industry and governments promote forest biomass — cutting trees, turning them into wood pellets, and burning them to make ...

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 ...

Last month, a national lab issued a set of colorful maps that reveal America's resources in renewable energy. Broken down into the major forms -- solar, wind, biomass and geothermal -- they are an ...

Climate change can be tackled from space, too. The European Space Agency (ESA) will soon launch a forest-measuring satellite that will monitor tropical rainforests with the help of a long-wavelength ...

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 ...

The Biomass mission will use a long-forbidden part of the radio spectrum to see how much carbon forests capture. ESA/ATG medialab Forests are the second-largest carbon sink on the planet, after the ...

Publication of a new map showing all the above-ground biomass in the Brazilian Amazon is good news in the context of the severe crisis afflicting the world’s largest contiguous tropical rainforest.

In the last several hundred years, human activity has shifted large quantities of the world’s carbon from long-term storage (i.e. carbon bound up in rocks, fossil fuels, and forests) into forms of ...

A new study has investigated how the relationship between mean annual precipitation (MAP) and grassland biomass changes when one or more nutrients are added. The authors show that precipitation and ...