A new study offers a promising solution to one of agriculture's toughest challenges: how to grow more food while using less water and reducing ...

Biochar has many uses in agricultural systems, with the most common being as a soil amendment, typically applied at rates of ...

Advises farmers to adopt biochar usage and take steps to convert locally available agricultural waste into biochar ...

The increasing global demand for sustainable energy and carbon materials, alongside pressing environmental concerns, ...

Research between Penn State and some European institutions is trying to identify risks associated with biochar to make a ...

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 ...

A new scientific review highlights how biochar, a carbon-rich material produced from biomass, could transform tea farming by restoring soil health ...

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 ...

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 ...