A global analysis of field experiments suggests that biochar, a carbon-rich material made by heating organic biomass with limited oxygen, can significantly increase soil microbial biomass carbon, an ...

Walk through a plantation or palm oil mill and the raw material is everywhere: fronds cut during harvesting, empty fruit ...

A forest can return without being planted, but the pace and character of that recovery can depend heavily on what happens at the beginning. In southern Costa Rica, researchers have been following ...

The projects could create more than 200 jobs and add annual demand for over 100 thousand tonnes of forest biomass.

In a news release, the province said the upgrades will raise daily kraft production by 11 per cent and create a market for over 130,000 tonnes of forest biomass each year. New equipment will reduce ...