Like fossil fuels, biomass energy releases loads of planet-heating carbon dioxide and health-harming air pollution. But the biomass industry and its enablers keep promoting it as “clean” — when it’s ...

As a result, their design principles could make it easier for researchers to create realistic and sustainable ways of dealing with microplastic pollution using biomass foams in the future.

and pollution dispersion in the near-field. This project will investigate the effects of fuel quality, plant operating characteristics, energy demand, and weather on performance, efficiency, emissions ...

Construction is moving forward on a biomass plant in California that has been trying to get greenlit for the past decade, CBS ...

Some of those are attributable to indoor air pollution, mostly caused by indoor smoke breathed in by the billions "who cook and heat their homes with biomass fuels and coal." While tragic ...

To convert algal biomass into chemically modified activated ... this technique could become an essential tool for managing nutrient pollution and preserving aquatic ecosystems globally.

New satellite data and firsthand accounts reveal that PM2.5 levels in rural India far exceed safe limits. From biomass cooking with cow dung cakes to relentless stubble burning and unchecked ...

Their results were published in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Converting biomass into useful resources has been a topic of scientific research for decades. Biomass ...

Shrub willow is a short-rotation woody crop that rapidly produces large amounts of renewable biomass. Lifecycle assessments show ... minimizing the use of fertilizers and water pollution, and ...