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Power to the people or a biomass of trouble?  -  Oct 9, 2007
Dorset Echo,Mr Moir also questioned claims that biomass burning was the best available technology for dealing with wood waste and raised concerns at the impact of gases

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE "RENEWABLES" ACTELIOS IN CALABRIA  -  Oct 3, 2007
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia,The centre of excellence of Actelios includes a biomass-burning plant at 14.3 MW and a photovoltaic plant, one of the biggest in Italy, 1MW, opened today in

Harvesting Heat For The Home  -  Oct 12, 2007
Realty Times,This year, with higher fossil fuel costs driving home heating concerns and global warming spreading environmental woes, the biomass burning appliance market

LETTER: No plant in his neighborhood  -  Sep 22, 2007
Lufkin Daily News,...over the establishment of any industrial complex, whether it is coal-burning, biomass-burning, paper mill, foundry or other industry in my back yard.

New Global Entity Ramps Up Battle Against 'Silent Killer In The ...  -  Sep 25, 2007
CSRwire.com (press release)With half the world's population still cooking on wood, dung and other biomass-burning stoves, the only way we are going to make a significant long-term

Expo Highlights Alternative Energy  -  Sep 29, 2007
WLUC-TV,With the recent threats of global warming and growing concerns over the world's increasing energy needs, many people have been looking into renewable and

In the News  -  Oct 9, 2007
American ScientistSuch clouds result from biomass burning and the combustion of fossil fuels. Ramanathan, V., et al. Warming trends in Asia amplified by brown cloud solar

Mammoth Collision: Did asteriod kill ice age mammals?  -  Oct 2, 2007
AlaskaReport,..."The shock wave, thermal pulse, and event-related environmental effects (eg, extensive biomass burning and food limitations) contributed to end-Pleistocene

A Diversity of Worlds  -  Sep 27, 2007
Space Daily,On the Earth, there's a compound called methyl chloride that is a product of biomass burning. It's also produced by plankton in the ocean.

Global warming and wildfires: Senate hearing today at 3:00 pm  -  Sep 24, 2007
Grist Magazine,If wildfire trends continue, at least initially, this biomass burning will result in carbon release, suggesting that the forests of the western United

Shadow of brown clouds  -  Aug 9, 2007
Hindustan Times,The origins of ABCs are fossil fuel combustion, cooking with wood and other bio-fuels and biomass burning. They start off as urban or rural haze.

2008 date for biomass plants  -  Aug 10, 2007
Shropshire Star,The engineer behind plans for two biomass burning power plants in Tenbury Wells and Bishop’s Castle has revealed they could be operational by the end of

Asian Brown Clouds Intensify Global Warming  -  Aug 2, 2007
Environment News Service...loaded with industrial and vehicle emissions and pollution from biomass burning, travel south from the continent to the Indian Ocean.

Indirect radiative forcing of climate change through ozone effects ...  -  Jul 25, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),Emissions associated with fossil fuel and biomass burning have acted to approximately double the global mean tropospheric ozone concentration 3

Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas Warming Trends To Jeopardize ...  -  Aug 2, 2007
Science Daily (press release)The air typically contains particles released from industrial and vehicle emissions as well as through biomass burning. Such polluted air has been

Power bid in spotlight  -  Aug 7, 2007
Shropshire Star,Detailed plans for a new £5 million biomass burning power station in Tenbury Wells will be revealed on Thursday. The scheme has already generated

Himalayan glaciers threatened by air pollution  -  Aug 2, 2007
Scenta.co.uk,The air typically contains particles released from industrial and vehicle emissions as well as through biomass burning. The pollution warms the atmosphere

"Brown Cloud" Particulate Pollution Amplifies Global Warming  -  Aug 1, 2007
National Science Foundation (press release)The air typically contains particles released from industrial and vehicle emissions, and through biomass burning. Such polluted air has a dual effect of

'Asian Brown Cloud is speeding melting'  -  Aug 2, 2007
Independent Online,Roughly 60 percent of the soot in South Asia comes from biofuel cooking and biomass burning, which could be eased by helping the rural poor get bottled gas

The CO 2 problem in 6 easy steps  -  Aug 6, 2007
RealClimate...particularly in the US and EU) and increases in absorbing aerosols (like soot, particularly from India and China and from biomass burning).

The Importance of Aerosol Water for Air Pollution Effects On ...  -  Aug 5, 2007
The New York Academy of Sciences,...and refines lumped categories such as mineral dust, biomass burning, sea salt, organic or sulfate aerosols currently used in atmospheric modeling.

Central American Fires Impact US Air Quality And Climate  -  Oct 11, 2006
Pollution Online (press release),Scientists using NASA satellites and computer models have shown that pollutants from Central American biomass burning can influence air quality and climate in ...

Persistence and Impact of Large Scale Burning  -  Oct 10, 2006
Technocrat.net,A NASA study is showing that large scale biomass burning, accidental fires and on purpose land clearing, etc, can have a profound and long rang impact on ...

Study: Mexican fires hurt US air quality  -  Oct 11, 2006
DailyIndia.com,11 (UPI) -- Scientists using NASA satellites have shown pollutants from Central American biomass burning can influence US air quality and climate. ...

Central American Fires Affect Weather, Climate Continentwide  -  Oct 10, 2006
NewsBlaze,...us to capture the meteorological impacts of smoke and aerosols, especially important during the tropical dry season each spring when biomass burning peaks and ...

Methane emissions on the rise  -  Sep 30, 2006
People & the Planet,Droughts also bring peat and forest fires, but such biomass burning seems to have released less extra methane than previous studies suggested. ...

African Regional Workshop on Adaptation Bulletin  -  Sep 26, 2006
Earth Negotiations Bulletin,...measures to address root causes of climate change, and mentioned environmental challenges, including tree felling for biomass burning and construction ...

Science of climate: Monsoons least  -  Sep 20, 2006
Central Chronicle,On the one hand, aerosols - particles in the atmosphere because of fossil fuel and biomass burning - could well lead to cooling and reduced rain. ...

Climate change: A nasty surprise in the greenhouse  -  Sep 28, 2006
Nature.com (subscription),Methane from biomass burning, fossil-fuel-related sources and bacterial processes have distinct isotopic signatures; methane emissions from wetlands, for ...




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