Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, but an extraordinarily complex interplay between the ocean, sea ice, and ice sheets and shelves.
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At the root of a thriving U.S. bioeconomy is development of better plants—living factories that anchor the economy against global shocks and strengthen domestic supply chains by providing the feedstock for new fuels, chemicals and materials.
As we enter 2025, the bioenergy and biomass sectors are set to witness substantial developments. Here’s a breakdown of key trends and my predictions for the coming year:
The Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) highlights the ways in which all regions in the United States are currently experiencing harmful impacts of climate change.
More than 200 scientists convened in Asheville, North Carolina, June 15-19 for the Department of Energy’s Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI’s, 2025 annual meeting. The three-day gathering highlighted the latest scientific progress across the center’s 17 research partners, which include national labs, universities and private industry.
The Center for Bioenergy Innovation, or CBI, at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has promoted Melissa Cregger and Carrie Eckert to serve as chief science officers, advancing the center’s mission of innovations for new domestic biofuels, chemicals and materials.
Microplastics—tiny plastic particles between 1 nanometer (nm) and 5 millimeters (mm) in size—have infiltrated our environment, including the food we consume daily.
AgSpire co-founder Jared Knock discusses how carbon concerns drive support for biodiversity initiatives, regenerative agriculture and soil health practices – the keys, as he sees it, to a financially viable future for family farms.
Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ice loss has driven sea levels to rise at an accelerated pace, according to a decades-long comprehensive analysis based on satellite data.