Wood, long admired for its natural beauty and strength, has now inspired a carbon material tough enough to rival steel. Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered that biochar derived ...

Researchers report that a clinker-free binder combining corn-straw biochar, blast-furnace slag, and carbide slag stabilizes ...

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” ...

A Delano operation with ambitions to bury carbon while also generating renewable energy from ag waste says it has achieved a first step in the process by producing biochar for sale to farmers as a ...

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 ...