New company aims to commercialize technology that makes charcoal from woody wastes, a method to improve soil and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Ambitious schemes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere abound, but the most practical might just be the simplest. Biochar–a technique that uses charcoal from plant waste to fertilize soil–has ...

In the quest for sustainable and efficient water treatment solutions, a new study titled "Enhanced Machine Learning Prediction of Biochar Adsorption for Dyes: Parameter Optimization and Experimental ...

The food that makes it to your plate is but a fraction of what actually grew in a field somewhere. Cassava, corn, wheat, rice — all critical crops produce waste biomass that farmers might be burning ...

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 ...

Last fall, on a 1,000-acre family farm in Texas, a tractor drove through a cornfield pulling a shipping-container-sized machine behind it. In front, a mechanical harvester picked up cornstalks and ...

poses a challenge. Key market players include AGICO Cement International Engineering Co., Ltd., Agile Process Chemicals LLP., ARTi, BESTON GROUP CO., LTD., Biochar ...

In a remarkable stride towards environmental sustainability, researchers at the Department of Biotechnology and Medical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India, have developed a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the top of the South Dade Landfill, a massive oven that turns wood into charcoal is being tested by Miami-Dade County as an ...