by Helen Bunting | Dec 10, 2025
Demonstrating methods for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is now a focus of research and development programmes designed to support decision making about future technology deployment. In this perspective piece, we outline some of the approaches to...
by Helen Bunting | Oct 23, 2025
In 2025, Dr Alan Whitehead CBE was appointed by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero to lead an Independent Review of Greenhouse Gas Removals. Researchers from CO2RE and the five Demonstrators submitted a joint response to the Review’s call for...
by Caroline Kennedy | Aug 28, 2025
Houses constructed using straw bales have typically been built from wheat, rice, or barley straw, depending on local availability. Miscanthus is a perennial biomass crop with a high lignocellulose content that is grown on agriculturally marginal land. We describe the...
by Caroline Kennedy | Aug 4, 2025
Short rotation coppice (SRC) willow is a second-generation lignocellulosic energy crop with a background of research and breeding programmes carried out globally for more than three decades. While commercial standards include planting in mixtures of 6–8 willow...