Turning plant waste into biochar captures loads of carbon. New research suggests it stays trapped for much longer than ...

Leaders on the project say the facility will remove more than 3,500 tons of carbon dioxide from the air a year — the ...

To address deforestation in Cameroon, an environmental engineer has devised a cheaper, ecological alternative to charcoal, a ...

Courtenay, B.C. resident Greg Porteous started making biochar for his neighbours as a way of taking action on climate change. The black, charcoal-like substance holds onto a lot of the carbon in the ...

When they mixed biochar into contaminated soil at a former tree nursery, DDT uptake by earthworms in the soil was halved. This method may enable the growing of certain crops on land that is ...

Minneapolis this spring will begin construction on a city-owned biochar facility — a furnace that turns wood scraps into a ...

Biochar alone added to poor soil has little ... Amazonian tribes grew cassava, corn, and numerous tree fruits in soil made rich with compost, mulch, and smoldered plant matter.

The company invested millions of dollars to receive up to 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide removal credits through the production of burnt organic material, or biochar, which offsets emissions the ...

As biomass like trees and crops grow, they sequester carbon in their leaves and branches. Heat that biomass up without fully consuming it and it turns to nearly pure carbon known as biochar ...