Biomass energy, or bioenergy, is created when biomass is converted into electricity, heat, power, or transportation fuels. Because trees and plants can be grown, harvested, and re-grown in a short period of time
On Tuesday, February 11, Starbucks executives toured three farms in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia, and four more just across the border in Whatcom County, Washington State. We spent an hour and a half with this group: we showed them our farm, shared our family’s generational story ...
Fires were burning in Cupertino this March as news of an internal meeting revealed consternation within Apple over the state of development for the Siri voice assistant. The situation was described as "dire" in the headlines, although the meeting appears to have been more like a combination of ...
Forest degradation, together with deforestation, are placed second to burning of fossil fuels in terms of contributing to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [81]; a key driver of global climate change [44]. Deforestation, forest degradation and peat land fires accounted for around 15% of global ant...
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PAHs such as BaP and benzo[b]fluoranthene (BbF) were found to cause indirect-acting mutagenicity of PMs exhausted from coal burning, wood burning and automobiles [84,86]. Benzo[a]pyrene is the most widely studied PAH as it can be used as a marker for carcinogenic...
Tarballs occur in almost all smoke from biomass burning, independent of fuel type [60]. Biofuel burning can also create tarballs, and Alexander et al. [59] found them to be ubiquitous in the East Asian Pacific outflow. The proportion of tarball particles in smoke increases as the smoke ages...
The Los Angeles area continues to burn after entire neighborhoods of the city are already heaps of ash and ruin. What news has been concurrently emerging with videos of burning houses and hills, interviews with residents who lost everything, and endless ‘news conferences’ with obviously incompete...
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In addition to habitat and species loss, forestation can decrease resistance and resiliency to severe fires, damaging insect outbreaks, windfall, and die-offs due to drought, along with increasing water use by trees, which may be exacerbated by climate change [9,10,11,12]. Open ecosystems ...