Mohamad Kabbani, a former graduate student of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and lead author of the paper, demonstrated the environmentally friendly, scalable process can be done in minutes ...

GLOSTER, Miss. — This southern Mississippi town’s expansive wood pellet plant was so close to Shelia Mae Dobbins’ home that she sometimes heard company loudspeakers. She says industrial residues ...

An environmental advocate says the wood pellet industry is damaging ecosystems in the United States and wants emerging jurisdictions like the Northwest Territories to proceed cautiously. Sasha ...

Mark Mathis was looking pretty smart in early 2008. He was harvesting Colorado beetle-kill and converting the state’s flood of dead trees into pellets for affordable home heating. Then the price of ...

The wood pellet fuel industry is growing in the United States. The largest chip mills across the South are gobbling up hardwood forests to meet demand for overseas customers. Wood Pellets are big ...

Nineteen-month-old Heeba Nisar is facing an uncertain future. The child was hit by pellets about a week ago making her Kashmir's youngest pellet victim. She may need multiple surgeries. The doctors ...

Much ado has been made of late about the advantages and, increasingly, the potential disadvantages of using wood to create energy. Figuring out what's what on that front has taken on new urgency, with ...