As the new Biomass satellite settles into life in orbit following its launch on April 29, ESA has released its most extensive satellite-based maps of above-ground forest carbon to date. Spanning ...

Annual forest re-growth may absorb a small portion of the stored carbon lost due to 400,000 tons of biomass burned, but that 100,000-hectare forest, no matter how well managed, is incapable of ...

ESA's Biomass satellite, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world's forests and their crucial role in Earth's carbon cycle, has been launched. The satellite lifted off aboard a ...

ESA's Biomass is the first satellite to carry a P-band synthetic aperture radar. Thanks to the long wavelength of P-band, around 70 cm, this novel radar is able to penetrate through the forest ...

Lightning has a greater impact on forests than previously thought. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...

As part of developing a biomass strategy, the UK government asked a group of experts to look at whether using forest biomass for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) could deliver net ...

Mapping forest biomass from space is a huge technical challenge, says ESA. They are complex structures – and different tree species and dense canopies make them difficult to measure, notes the ...

The findings challenge previous conclusions that forest biomass in this region and, by extension, the accumulated carbon, remained relatively static in the millennia before industrialization.

Guillemot, J. (2019). Intensive silviculture enhances biomass accumulation and tree diversity recovery in tropical forest restoration. Ecological Applications, 29 (2). doi: 10.1002/eap.1847 ...

A perennial battle in Congress over the environmental effects of burning wood for energy has tipped again toward the biomass industry. The $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill declares forest ...

The study found that torrefaction of forest residue enhanced the tensile strength of PLA/biomass composites without compromising biodegradability.