What usually ends up as agricultural waste could have another use beneath our wheels. Engineers have investigated coconut ...

Demonstration of methods for making biochar to improve garden soil and increase food production. Explains charcoal-making ...

Biochar has become one of the most heavily researched soil amendments of the past two decades, celebrated for its potential ...

It's possible you've heard of biochar or know someone who uses it, but if you're reading this, then you might be wondering what it is. Although it's a relatively well known gardening material that's ...

A humble soil amendment made from burned crop residue may hold the key to one of rice farming’s most persistent problems. A ...

Biochar is a high-carbon, fine-grained residue that is produced via pyrolysis. Image by K.salo.85 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Cocoa shells – residual material from cocoa production – provide an ...

In the late 1990s, soil scientist Johannes Lehmann was working in the central Amazon to help restore degraded soils. Other researchers had discovered that the region’s fertile terra preta, meaning ...

It’s one of the world’s biggest killers, leading to lung cancer, heart disease, and COPD, not to mention child pneumonia and low birth-weight babies. It affects billions of people. And if you think it ...

When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south ...

When it comes to building a circular economy, every kind of waste is either eliminated or recycled into new valuable materials. But waste comes in all shapes and sizes—there’s no single “magic bullet” ...

As the climate changes, large parts of southern Australia are projected to get drier. Extreme rains are also becoming more common. For farmers, these changes pose big risks. What can we do to manage ...

Wakefield's Biochar Pro Garden Mix, a premium, plant-based biochar product, provides an easy, carbon-negative, and affordable way to improve soil health, reduce watering, and boost plant growth ...