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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elkhorn Slough Foundation is producing biochar from invasive eucalyptus trees removed to restore native ecosystems around ...

Biochar traps microorganisms that can sequester carbon emissions in the soil for long periods of time, lessening farmers’ environmental impact. It can also help farmers by holding things like ...

Raising groundwater levels and adding biochar to agricultural peat soils could dramatically cut greenhouse gas emissions while maintaining healthy crop production, according to a new study from Bangor ...

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 ...

A recent study published in Scientific Reports explores the development and performance of biochar-based slow-release fertilizers (SRFs) enhanced with semi-interpenetrating polymer networks (Semi-IPNs ...

Greenery, a climate tech company that offers solutions to reach net zero emissions, will bring its innovative solutions for low-carbon agriculture to the 29 th UN Climate Change Conference of the ...

What if the secret to climate-friendly farming wasn’t in futuristic tech—but in how we manage what’s already on the field? Imagine turning leftover maize stalks not into smoke from open burning, but ...

Wisconsin farms produce 35 megatons of manure annually, according to data from the MidWest Plan Service. Manure is important for on-farm sustainability but it poses environmental concerns – including ...

A new study reveals that not all biochar works the same way in protecting crops from disease. Researchers have discovered that the particle size of ...