A study has demonstrated that discarded Jamun tree leaves can be transformed into a highly effective material for cleaning ...

The researchers dug out soil, put it in piles and mixed biochar into half of them. They then set up 24 experimental plots and distributed the soil piles to them in a randomized experiment. The results ...

A Brazilian researcher is working with Mexican farmers to test soils using biochar: a carbon-rich material showing promise in increasing water retention and fertility. Biochar is a porous, solid ...

Biochar binds DDT effectively, so that the toxin is not taken up by soil organisms. Credit: Anja Enell, the Swedish Geotechnical Institute. Biochar binds DDT effectively, so that the toxin is not ...

A new study reveals that a specially engineered form of biochar can dramatically enhance the natural ability of soil microbes to break down pollutants ...

On a site next to a sawmill in Waverly, Virginia, a startup takes sawdust and offcuts from the mill and heats it up to turn it into biochar, a material that can store carbon for hundreds or thousands ...

October 2, 2023 by Lon Tegels Special to The Commercial In rural Arkansas, researchers with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture are exploring the potential of biochar to replace ...

A small biochar plant promised to create green new jobs and produce a locally useful product. Residents rallied against it and won. Saratoga Biochar Solutions CEO Raymond Apy said he will not appeal ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – Since David Laird was young, the “lush, green forests” of the western United States meant an annual summer trip to hike, camp and fish. But the last time Laird was in Wyoming’s Medicine ...