A new review in Microbial Ecology details how combining biochar with Pseudomonas bacteria boosts crop growth and pollutant ...

Of all the approaches to cutting carbon emissions, making charcoal and putting it in the ground as fertilizer would seem one of the least controversial. But a report published today offers words of ...

Biochar can store carbon in the soil and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—yet we still know too little ...

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed the possibilities of biochar – burning organic waste, such as wood chips, left-over crop residue or even manure at extremely low oxygen levels and high temperatures ...

(Phys.org) —As more gardeners and farmers add ground charcoal, or biochar, to soil to both boost crop yields and counter global climate change, a new study by researchers at Rice University and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. An interview with Laurens Rademakers of Biochar Fund. Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of ...

A 90-day incubation study shows that mixing corn straw with biochar at a 1:3 ratio immobilizes cadmium and zinc, relieves microbial carbon limitation and stabilizes soil organic carbon better than ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. 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 ...