Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...
A new study reveals that turning crop residues into biochar can significantly enhance soil carbon storage compared to simply ...
Biochar can be produced from a variety of feedstocks, including wood chips, corn cobs, or separated manure solids. Its ...
Simon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an invasive menace: Prosopis juliflora, better known as the mathenge plant. Its long roots steal water from ...
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Researchers find a new use for biochar: filtering microplastics from farm soils

Biochar enriches farm soils and can lock away tons of carbon each year. Now among these environmental attributes, researchers ...
It’s incredibly easy to dump carbon into the atmosphere and accelerate climate change. It’s a lot harder to take it out. Startups are experimenting with massive industrial systems to draw the ...
A new study reveals how a simple, low-cost material could significantly boost the production of clean hydrogen fuel from ...
Advises farmers to adopt biochar usage and take steps to convert locally available agricultural waste into biochar ...
Most people probably don't think about soil as a living thing. But it is filled with millions of tiny organisms that play a critical role in everything soil does—including sequestering carbon.
A new study demonstrates that biochar-supported catalysts can efficiently convert biomass tar into hydrogen-rich gas at ...