Biochar can be produced from a variety of feedstocks, including wood chips, corn cobs, or separated manure solids. Its ...

Rice paddies feed more than half of the world's population, yet they are also hotspots for toxic arsenic contamination and greenhouse gas emissions. A ...

Biochar may improve soil, but too much can harm ants, disrupting their behavior, teamwork, and the health of the ecosystem.

Biochar, a carbon-rich material made from agricultural waste, has long been valued for improving soil and capturing carbon. Now, a new review ...

A new long-term field study reveals that biochar, a carbon-rich material derived from biomass, can significantly enhance soil ...

A research team found that biochar production temperature determines whether soil microbes immobilize cadmium or increase its ...

A new study reveals that biochar, a carbon-rich material increasingly used in agriculture, can significantly influence how soils respond to warming when releasing nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse ...

According to PG&E, biochar acts as a soil amendment that can be an economically and environmentally effective way to help ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing a new machine in the mountains of Butte County that turns leftover wood ...

Biochar could scale using crops grown on abandoned land, offering a low-cost way to remove carbon and improve soil health.

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 ...

Biochar is a form of charcoal made in high heat, low oxygen conditions It can be used to produce energy, capture and store carbon and improve soil health But a climate expert warns we should not "over ...