It's possible you've heard of biochar or know someone who uses it, but if you're reading this, then you might be wondering what it is. Although it's a relatively well known gardening material that's ...

Making biochar is one way to remove carbon from the atmosphere and lock it away for a long time." Masiello, who specializes in studying the carbon cycle, said the microscopic properties of biochar can ...

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 ...

Find out what biochar is and how to use it to improve your garden soil. Storebought or homemade biochar in soil enhances water retention, nutrient availability, and structure. It can neutralize acidic ...

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 ...

This tree was planted with biochar at an Arbor Day event in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine. Biochar is an ingredient made by burning wood at high temperatures with little oxygen, and it ...

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.

When it comes to building a circular economy, every kind of waste is either eliminated or recycled into new valuable materials. But waste comes in all shapes and sizes—there’s no single “magic bullet” ...

An indigenous farming technique that's been around for thousands of years provides the basis for restoring rain forests stripped clear of trees by gold mining and other threats. A carbon-based soil ...

In the late 1990s, soil scientist Johannes Lehmann was working in the central Amazon to help restore degraded soils. Other researchers had discovered that the region’s fertile terra preta, meaning ...