Demonstration of methods for making biochar to improve garden soil and increase food production. Explains charcoal-making techniques and the role of biochar in improving nutrient and water retention.

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 ...

Charcoal is an ancient technology. Now, it has become a "new technology" that companies like Boeing and AI data centers are ...

A new review in Frontiers in Environmental Engineering maps how biochar produced from agricultural residues, food waste, and ...

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 new study shows biochar to be far more effective at long-term carbon storage than previously thought. The study reveals critical flaws in the models used by the IPCC and European climate ...

A controlled paddy-soil experiment found that manganese-loaded wheat-straw biochar increased nitrogen-conserving microbial ...

Biochar, a charcoal made from heating discarded organic materials such as crop residues, offers a path to lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) at a time when climate scientists warn that urgent ...

CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VGrid Energy Systems, a California-based clean energy producer, announced today it now offers its Persist™ Premium Biochar in a new formulation: Micronized Biochar.

Biochar, a charcoal-like substance made from burning organic materials in a low or zero-oxygen environment, can improve the quality of soil and trap carbon dioxide in the earth for potentially ...

What usually ends up as agricultural waste could have another use beneath our wheels. Engineers have investigated coconut shell biochar as a material for modifying asphalt, finding that a specific ...

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.