Researchers at UT Austin have developed a system using molecularly functionalized biomass hydrogels that convert discarded natural materials into sorbents, enabling water extraction from air even in ...

URBANA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency established the Conservation Reserve Program 30 years ago to improve water quality, reduce soil erosion, and increase habitat ...

Lebanon, OH - As various states, and the country as a whole, seek to increase the percentage of electricity generated from renewable resources, biomass power generation is poised to provide more power ...

MIDDLEBURY, Vt.MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Middlebury College used to heat its buildings with oil, then switched to wood chips. Now it has planted a sustainable and relatively cheap fuel source – willow shrubs ...

Scott Weishaar surveys the long row of biomass harvest equipment ready for demonstration and cracks a smile. “The equipment companies have stepped up to the plate,” says Weishaar, vice president of ...

Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the effects of erosion that future biomass harvests are predicted to bring. Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways to use ground cover, ...

This is a story of carbon choices: As societies around the world continue to move toward increased renewable energy portfolios, which energy sources do we choose? In the U.S., coal plants are closing, ...

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced $2 million funding support to develop a solution for collecting renewable biomass from fast growing trees. ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht ...

Patterns in biomass production are determined by resource input (productivity) and trophic transfer efficiency. At fixed resource input, variation in consumer biomass production has been related to ...