An international declaration was launched by 147 organizations from 44 countries - between them Ecologistas en Acción - being opposed to the increasing tendency and political support that is being ...

AI may help farmers use biochar as a smarter soil tool, predicting whether it will boost phosphorus for crops or protect ...

Biochar is a form of charcoal (mostly carbon) produced by heating organic matter in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. This avoids the production of carbon dioxide and locks up the ...

An interview with Laurens Rademakers of Biochar Fund. Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of this century’s most important social and ...

From the citrus fields of Japan to the willow forests of Wales and the cropland of the Amazon Basin, farmers have used biochar—the practice of burying charcoal in soil to improve fertility—for ...

Biochar is a carbon-rich material that is made from biomass through a thermochemical conversion process known as pyrolysis. Don’t worry if that all sounds like a mouthful—read on for an introduction ...

I said in my recent book that perhaps the only tool we had to bring carbon dioxide back to pre-industrial levels was to let the biosphere pump it from the air for us. It currently removes 550bn tons a ...

New company aims to commercialize technology that makes charcoal from woody wastes, a method to improve soil and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

As much as 12 percent of the world's human-caused greenhouse gas emissions could be sustainably offset by producing biochar, a charcoal-like substance made from plants and other organic materials.

Biochar removes CO2 from the air, improves soil quality, creates clean energy, and it's surprisingly easy to come by. Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... You might not think of burying charcoal briquettes in your garden, and you definitely should not do that. But you might consider adding biochar, the ...