#GriftersGonnaGrift. #CarbonGrifters - #BioMass - #BioFuels. #StopBurningShit #DeathByCarbon #Ecocide. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/19/calls-to-halt-drax-subsidy-sustainability-doubts-wood-pellets?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The UK quit coal. But is burning Louisiana’s trees any better?
How Britain's new "green energy" depends on cutting down forests in the Deep South.

https://grist.org/energy/coal-uk-louisiana-biomass-yorkshire-emissions/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email #biomass #climate #ClimateChange #energy #GreenEnergy

RE: https://mastodon.ozioso.online/@DorotheaLange/116045464980529577

Chemical production from non-fossil biomass. #chemistry #history #biomass

#GFZ:
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Kleine Rodungsflächen führen zu massiven Kohlenstoffverlusten in tropischen Wäldern
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".. Daten stammen aus der Klimawandelinitiative RECCAP-2 und dem Projekt „Biomass“ der .. ESA. .."

"Kleine Rodungen (< 2 ha) machen nur 5 % der gestörten Waldfläche aus, sind jedoch für 56 % der Netto-Kohlenstoffverluste verantwortlich."

https://www.gfz.de/presse/meldungen/detailansicht/kleine-rodungsflaechen-fuehren-zu-massiven-kohlenstoffverlusten-in-tropischen-waeldern

4.2.2026

#Biomass #Biomasse #EO #Erdbeobachtung #ESA #Klimawandel #Kohlenstoff #Raumfahrt #RECCAP2 #Rodung #SpaceFlight #Tropen #Wald

How to Download and Visualize NASA-ISRO NISAR Data in QGIS | Step-by-Step Tutorial [shared]
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https://youtu.be/oRTplHPf_T0 <-- shared video tutorial
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https://github.com/opengeos/qgis-nasa-earthdata-plugin <-- shared NASA Earthdata Plugin for QGIS
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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/ <-- shared #NASA NISAR mission home page
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H/T Qiusheng Wu
#remotesensing #earthobservation #tutorial #training #onlinelearning #download #visualisation #NISAR #opendata #satellite #NASA #Earthdata #QGIS #plugin #SAR #icemovement #ecosystems #vegetation #biomass #naturalhazard #risk #hazard #NetCDF #spatialvisualisation
@QGIS | @nasa

🧁 Sugarcane hits the sweet spot for sustainable carbon

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sugarcane-sweet-sustainable-carbon.html

#carbon #carboncapture #resources #sugar #sugarcane #biomass #renewables #energytransition

ESA Advanced Radar Polarimetry / #Biomass course.

A dense week ahead to deepen polarimetric #SAR approaches & their applications to agricultural & forested environments.

Goal: better link soils, vegetation & water stress using radar data.

Back to Woodhouse 📡📘
#Science #Ljubljana

Will the European Commission finally propose to stop pushing energy companies to burn wood in the name of climate action after 2030?

They announced a legislative proposal for end of 2026.

Meanwhile, most EU Member States are yet to transpose the 2023 revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) into national law. But there is a useful precedent with #Denmark, which already did it and even marginally improved a few rules - see my analysis.

https://www.fern.org/publications-insight/renewable-energy-directive-rules-for-subsidising-wood-burning/

#biomass #forests

Integrating Characteristic Arctic Vegetation In A Land Surface Model Improves Representation Of Carbon Dynamics Across A Tundra Landscape
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG009039 <-- shared paper
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[ https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091839 <-- shared paper ]
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#tundra #arctic #vegetation #spatialanalysis #arcticwarming #warming #climate #carbon #carbonsink #carbonsource #carbondynamics #carboncycle #EnergyExascale #earthsystemmodels #ESM #model #modeling #plant #functional #PFT #Alaska #Seward #Peninsula #casestudy #biomass #ecosystem #remotesensing #scaling #drone #aircraft #insitu #GIS #spatial #sampling #earthsystem

There are many more land-efficient ways to produce #energy than growing #biofuels. Crops convert less than 1% of sunlight into biomass; #solarpanels convert around 20%. And using #electricity is more efficient than using liquid fuels: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/biofuels-v... #landuse #biomass

We could produce a lot of elec...

#Biomass – an #ESA Earth Explorer mission – is set to deliver unprecedented insight into how the world’s forests are changing and how much carbon they store. It carries a P-band synthetic aperture radar, capable of penetrating dense forest canopies to measure woody biomass, including trunks and large branches, where the majority of forest carbon is held, as a robust proxy for carbon storage.

https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Biomass/ESA_s_Biomass_goes_live_with_data_now_open_to_all

Open data:
https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/biomass/biomass-data

#EU #geoscience #climateChange

#ProTip: This same warning/ban must apply to #BioMass Electricity Generation and all uses of #BioFuels as well. #StopBurningShit #DeathByCarbon. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/new-wood-burning-stoves-health-warnings-uk-plan?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Lynemouth Biomass Power Station, Northumberland. Once the coal-powered power station for the now demolished Alcan Aluminium Smelter it was converted to the not-quite-so-bad biomass technology. There is a small windfarm there as well. #Sea #Coast #Industry #Wind #Biomass #Alcan #Lynemouth #Photography #Landscape #Seascape

I just spent three nights camping at #BirdLife Australia's #Gluepot Reserve in the #mallee of #SouthAustralia.

Tenperatures were reaching 37/38 C, and it's very dry there. The reserve has a small dam, but no other open water. The #MurrayRiver is about 40 km to the south.

But the #insects that appeared at night were primarily #freshwater species - lots of #CaddisFlies (#Trichoptera), #Chironomidae and #BackSwimmers (#Notonectidae).

This video shows the insects attracted to a #LepiLED UV light. If these mostly originated down at the river, the insect #biomass streaming up across this region (wind-blown?) is absolutely staggering.

There were also LOTS of #microbats everywhere, and the stars were incredible.

#entomology #biodiversity #Australia

🚀 PolSARpro update released!

This new version includes:

• a new tutorial showing how to run PolSARpro on BIOMASS data directly in the cloud via the ESA MAAP platform (no local download needed)
• access to an ALOS-1 sample dataset to get started with the tutorials
• bug fixes and stability improvements

📦 Available on conda-forge
🔗 Code: https://github.com/satim-co/PolSARpro
📘 Docs: https://polsarpro.readthedocs.io

#PolSAR #SAR #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation #OpenSource #Python #ESA #MAAP #BIOMASS #Dask #Xarray

Low #CarbonDensity != Low #EnvironmentalImpact (esp. #Nuclear, #Hydro, #BioMass ...). Focus on the prize, not the sizzle.
@kravietz

"Drax has taken the best of what they had left: their peace, #cleanair, and health." Read how #Drax's subsidies in the UK enable its #biomass burning in Gloster, Mississippi, at the expense of the community's health.

We can’t breathe because of a ...

@glasspusher

#biomass is thought to be by definition 'renewable'

not my idea.

✨ Honored to be expecting
 many high-ranking guests ✨

We eagerly await the opening plenary session on 22nd January in Graz, where Federal Minister Norbert Totschnig, State Secretary Elisabeth Zehetner and Regional Minister Simone Schmiedtbauer will talk about the challenges of energy and climate policy in political practice. 

👉 cebc.at

#cebc #cebcgraz #cebc2026 #RenewableEnergy #bioenergy #biomass

Hey all, if you're interested in learning more about renewables, check out this free webinar about heat pumps, geothermal energy, biomass and more on Jan 29. I'm not affiliated at all, just wanted to get the word out because education is neat.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/renewables-101-heat-pumps-geo-exchange-wastewater-energy-biomass-more-registration-1974988156742

#renewables #Renewables101 #geothermal #education #webinar #HeatPumps #Biomass #Learning