Ready to remove a real Christmas tree from the living room? Consider donating it to feed a goat. The 130-acre Topaz Farm on ...

Biochar, a charcoal-like material derived from plant biomass, has long been hailed as a promising tool for carbon dioxide ...

Biochar is a “charcoal-like substance that’s made by burning organic material from agricultural and forestry wastes (also called biomass) in a controlled process called pyrolysis,” according to ...

Nitrogen dioxide is one of the most harmful air pollutants in urban and industrial regions, contributing to respiratory ...

A five year field study in southern China shows that a single application of biochar combined with reduced nitrogen ...

Biochar is a form of charcoal (mostly carbon) produced by heating organic matter in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. This avoids the production of carbon dioxide and locks up the ...

From the citrus fields of Japan to the willow forests of Wales and the cropland of the Amazon Basin, farmers have used biochar—the practice of burying charcoal in soil to improve fertility—for ...

Biochar has been heralded as a solution to a number of agricultural and environmental ills. To get the most benefit from its application, environmental and social circumstances should both be ...

In the late 1990s, soil scientist Johannes Lehmann was working in the central Amazon to help restore degraded soils. Other researchers had discovered that the region’s fertile terra preta, meaning ...

At Laragon Almonds in north-western Victoria, the processing plant is dwarfed by the piles of leftovers that sit alongside it. The hulls and shells are normally sold as livestock feed, but with the ...