A local bio energy company are refining their prototype for turning farming waste products into high value biochar and electricity generation. The Geraldton-based company, Energy Farmers Australia, ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Piles of forest waste are scattered across the Black Hills, potentially numbering in the tens of thousands. Left alone, they would take a century to break down. Dakota ...

(Phys.org) —In the quest to decrease the world's greenhouse gases, Cornell scientists have discovered that biochar – a charcoal-like substance – reduces the nemesis nitrous oxide from agricultural ...

The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday unveiled a new project that will turn leftover woody debris from the Holiday Farm Fire into charcoal, also known as biochar. The project, established by BLM ...

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 ...

Biochar has been heralded as one of agriculture’s most seductive fixes: a charcoal-like material that locks carbon into the ground for centuries, buoys soil fertility, and echoes the legendary A ...

Biochar could help farmers achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. A recent review of more than 200 field studies worldwide examined the impact of the nature-based carbon sequestration technology ...

Marshall Webb is accustomed to getting his hands dirty. After all, he’s the woodlands manager at Shelburne Farms, the sprawling agricultural estate on Lake Champlain that has been in his family for ...

On-farm biochar production is a step closer to commercialisation after a UK biochar specialist launched an integrated biochar and heat recovery system on ...