Wood can also be used to create quite an effective water filter, as shown by research recently conducted at MIT and Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology. A paper on the Maryland research was ...

"Wood is an affordable, local, renewable, low-carbon fuel that should be an important part of the U.S. energy mix, but it must be burned cleanly to effectively protect health," MacCarty said.

The laboratory’s wood aggregator acts like a candle wick, continuing to draw the oil up to the surface, with scientists’ objective to burn and remove at least 90 percent of the oil, Bonheyo said.

From there, they could even coax wood tissue to grow into fully-formed shapes—like, say, a table—in order to mitigate the environmental harm of the logging and construction industries ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University researchers are gaining a more detailed understanding of emissions from wood-burning stoves and developing technologies that allow stoves to operate ...