Why Gardeners Swear by Biochar — And How You Can Make Your Own originally appeared on Dengarden. It's possible you've heard of biochar or know someone who uses it, but if you're reading this, then you ...

Common agricultural byproduct – biochar – could offer a practical solution to tackling high emissions of greenhouse gas 300 times more powerful than CO2 ...

What is biochar? Biochar is wood chips that go through a process called pyrolysis, basically burning without much oxygen to produce wood charcoal. So biochar is another name for charcoal when not used ...

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 ...

Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University are introducing new methods of biochar production that could significantly improve its ability to sequester carbon, according to TechXplore. Biochar is ...

A team of scientists has found that biochar made from an aggressive invasive plant can protect rice from two modern pollutants that threaten global food security: nanoplastics and cadmium. The study, ...

Hassan El Hemer has made it his job to scavenge leftover wood from dying olive trees in Kalaat Sraghna, Morocco’s top olive-producing region hit hardest by drought- for the farmers, the wood is trash, ...

Agricultural soils are one of the world's largest sources of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a ...