Walk through a plantation or palm oil mill and the raw material is everywhere: fronds cut during harvesting, empty fruit bunches (EFB) after processing, mesocarp fibre, palm kernel shells, palm oil ...

Aboveground biomass (AGB) of rice, vital for carbon pool and yield estimation, is traditionally measured through labor-intensive manual sampling. Recent advancements employ remote sensing, ...

A global analysis of field experiments suggests that biochar, a carbon-rich material made by heating organic biomass with limited oxygen, can significantly increase soil microbial biomass carbon, an ...

A 20-year forest restoration experiment in southern Costa Rica compared natural regeneration, clustered tree planting and conventional plantation methods. After 18 to 20 years, fully planted plots ...

In a news release, the province said the upgrades will raise daily kraft production by 11 per cent and create a market for over 130,000 tonnes of forest biomass each year. New equipment will reduce ...