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 ...

In the quest for climate solutions, Pat Jones, the president of Clean Maine Carbon, is among the Maine entrepreneurs banking on this charcoal-like substance. They say it can bind up carbon for decades ...

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.

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 ...

Minneapolis is on track to become one of the first U.S. cities to invest in biochar, a multifunctional, charcoal-like material said to help grow bigger plants, reduce storm water runoff and remove ...

Twelve countries have the technical ability to sequester over 20% of their current total greenhouse gas emissions by converting crop residues to biochar. Bhutan leads the way with the potential to ...

Researcher see the interconnections between the systems in nature and how each component impacts the others. In Connecticut, rich in forests and farmland, experts see the potential that could position ...

A researcher cups a handful of biochar, a kind of advanced charcoal that can sequester carbon and provide other environmental benefits in Coleraine on Sept. 19.

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 Biochar is a high-carbon, fine-grained residue that is produced via pyrolysis ...

DULUTH — To keep global temperatures from increasing more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above pre-industrial levels, the goal laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement, emitters must ...

“When you venture into this subject matter,” says James Gaspard, “you’re poking the bear.” On a cool morning on the Colorado plains, six stray dogs roam the seventeen acres of Biochar Now. The company ...