A fire near Katherine has burnt more than $3 million of hay. The business owner said the situation could have been "10 times worse" if not for the quick response of authorities and neighbours. The ...

Industrial forest biomass wood pellet mills now dot rural areas around the globe, with plants concentrated in the U.S. Southeast, and other major facilities found in Canada, the EU, Russia, Vietnam, ...

Hood Container Corporation, a family-owned packaging and paper company, plans to invest $118.9 million to modernize its legacy paper mill in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. The investment will allow ...

The investment will increase the company’s recovered paper consumption by about 22,000 tons annually. Hood Container Corp. has announced a nearly $119 million investment to modernize its legacy paper ...

Hood Container said it will spend $118.9 million to expand its St. Francisville paper mill, a move that will boost production capacity at the facility. The expansion, set to begin in summer 2026, will ...

Long before he was writing bestselling books that defined the understanding of biodiversity, Edward O. Wilson was a boy in Mobile, Ala., exploring the bayous and backwaters of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wood pellets, by design, are highly flammable. The small pieces of compressed woody leftovers, like sawdust, are ...

One big tree did a lot of damage at the Mill Creek Community Food Bank during last week’s windstorm. Executive Director Tom Sweeney says the tree crashed onto a steel container, denting the structure ...

A new groundbreaking survey highlights the human toll from pollution and other quality of life impacts connected to those living near the forest biomass industry’s wood pellet mills in the U.S ...

Environmental groups are challenging Georgia regulators’ decision to allow a wood pellet mill in rural Middle Georgia that has a history of environmental violations to double its emissions of toxic ...