We have been arguing about whether burning wood is carbon neutral for years, but I have a simplistic view of the subject: A tree might have taken 40 years to store its carbon, but burning it in a ...

Burning trees for energy really does heat the climate, scientists argue. Story by Saul Elbein • 9mo. A rising push to pull energy from the world’s forests is heating the planet — despite ...

While referring to their findings of 2017, they wrote that “air pollution from burning firewood in homes was responsible for 9,800 to 16,000 deaths, burning biomass in industrial boilers had a ...

View 3 more stories View 3 more stories. Sign up. 2025 Heat Tracker. 2 90-degree days so far. Average Year-To-Date: 6: ... Forest fires burn twice as many trees as two decades ago, report finds.

It takes trees decades to sequester carbon as they grow, so burning wood today incurs a carbon debt that can only be repaid years into the future. The best way to avoid this debt is simply to ...

Planting trees can help save the planet, right? A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from fossil fuel reserves, trees would have to entirely cover an area the size ...

Burning wood for electricity is controversial. In the UK and Europe, it is treated as if it produces zero carbon emissions. Trees grow back after all, and when they are burned, they are releasing the ...

Trees grow on forest land adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park on Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, near Ashford, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ...