"There’s no reason to believe that the nine limits we found are the only ones," Richardson told SciDev.Net. "Biomass is a very critical one since unlike other resources everyone has easy access to it.

Microalgae (phytoplankton), unlike macroalgae (seaweed), are single-cell microscopic organisms that live in freshwater or marine ecosystems. Through their growth, they produce biomass, which is ...

Green groups have welcomed the UK Government’s Biomass Strategy, which attempts to reaffirm the role that biomass and carbon capture technologies can play in reaching net-zero. The Government’s new ...

Seven-level hierarchy places food and chemicals above power generation as demand for biogenic raw materials set to outstrip ...

The UK Government is over-prioritising carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS) and biomass in its net-zero plans and failing to account for the impact these technologies could have on land use. That ...

Though experts say biomass should continue to play a key role in the U.S. renewable power portfolio for its baseload properties, contributions to forest management, and other reasons, a swathe of ...

While the larger conversation about plant economics and mass retirements in the U.S. has been focused on coal and nuclear power plants, the nation’s much smaller biomass power industry is grappling ...

There are a number of controversies surrounding both biomass estimation and carbon balance in tropical forests. Here we use long-term (from 1978 through 2000) data from five 0.5-ha permanent sample ...

Plant functional traits are measurable morphological and physiological attributes that significantly affect whole-plant performance and thus, presumably, the main components of fitness: survival, ...