California needs to burn vegetation both for wildfire mitigation and to generate power. So why do biomass energy projects ...

PINE BLUFF -- The Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a global impact on business, and changes in the fuels used to generate electricity in Europe brought on by the war might open up opportunities for ...

Reengineered metasequoia wood generates electricity from water flow while cooling buildings through evaporation, offering a ...

The wood-pellet business is thriving based on the argument that trees are a clean-energy alternative to coal, but the science behind it is facing challenges from researchers who say cutting and ...

Here's another example of a climate-change solution that may actually be the opposite. Wood pellets made from trees cut in the forests of North Carolina and the Southeast are a growing alternative ...

Even a little pressure can generate usable energy from a wooden sponge created by the team at ETH Zurich and EMPA. Scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have found a way to make wood produce small ...

There are untold energy sources all around us, if we can just figure out how to tap into them. Swiss researchers have now demonstrated an environmentally friendly way to make spongy wood flooring that ...

A European Parliament effort to roll back policies and subsidies that encourage burning wood pellets for energy has suffered a potential setback. The parliament's business committee, known as ITRE, ...