At the top of the South Dade Landfill, a massive oven that turns wood into charcoal is being tested by Miami-Dade County as ...

Biochar engineered with artificial humic substances can dramatically amplify sunlight-driven chemical reactions, offering a ...

Two University of Nebraska–Lincoln scientists, partnering with American Farmland Trust, extension educators and four Nebraska ...

Researchers have developed a new strategy to engineer biochar with dramatically enhanced sunlight-driven chemical activity, ...

Biochar as a material is not novel. It has been produced by humans for more than 2,000 years. But churning out the material ...

Douglas County is throwing its weight behind a new plant in Sedalia that officials say can turn mountains of leftover wood ...

Researchers have developed a new algae-based biochar material that shows remarkable ability to break down perfluorooctanoic ...

In lush South Florida, trees and bushes grow all year round. And that means yard waste and dead trees never stop piling up. But leaving them in a landfill is a climate-warming issue.

When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south ...

If you take organic waste, subject it to high heat and starve it of oxygen, you will, through a process called pyrolysis, wind up with a pile of char — also known these days as biochar — that doesn’t ...

What is biochar? And could it be used by Australian farmers to sequester carbon, save water and fertilisers, and increase soil microbial life? It may have become a political sound bite of late, but ...