A new scientific review highlights how biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass, could transform tea farming by restoring soil health ...

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

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

A new long-term field study shows that how biochar is applied matters just as much as whether it is used at all. Researchers report that small ...

Research between Penn State and some European institutions is trying to identify risks associated with biochar to make a ...

Simon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an invasive menace: Prosopis juliflora, better known as the mathenge plant. Its long roots steal water from ...

A new study reveals that tiny particles derived from biochar can directly enter plant tissues and significantly enhance ...

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

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 ...

Construction on the biochar composting facility in Winton Woods is underway. Great Parks Sustainability Coordinator Stephanie Bacher says the bays will be used to hold biochar and the working compost ...

Most people probably don't think about soil as a living thing. But it is filled with millions of tiny organisms that play a critical role in everything soil does—including sequestering carbon.