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 ...

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.

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

He says his hope is that biochar will eventually replace charcoal, which is a major reason for the cutting and burning of trees in Cameroon. According to Global Forest Watch, Cameroon has among ...

Qualterra formed in 2021 when NuPhY, a company providing genetic testing for crop diseases as well as plant and fruit tree production, acquired Ag Energy Solutions, which focused on biochar and ...

These treatments, combined with the use of compost and biochar, were aimed at enhancing soil health and tree resilience. "Urban soil management needs to be more proactive," Petrova said.

"By combining physical harvesting with thinning -- removing smaller or fire-vulnerable trees -- evidence from ... dead wood and converting it into biochar -- a stable form of carbon -- emissions ...

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 ...