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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cadmium contamination in agricultural soils is a growing global concern, threatening food safety, crop productivity, and human health. New research shows that not all biochars work the same way and ...

Retrieved as trash and unloaded as treasure, piles of dead wood are dropped off at this biochar facility in Berthoud, Colorado, for an opportunity at a second life. James Gaspard is the CEO of this ...

Agricultural soils are one of the world’s largest sources of nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas nearly 300 times more powerful ...

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.

Biochar made from corn cobs can remove microplastics and ammonia from water, offering a low-cost, reusable filter made from ...

DULUTH — To keep global temperatures from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels, the goal laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, emitters must ...

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