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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

It’s one of the world’s biggest killers, leading to lung cancer, heart disease, and COPD, not to mention child pneumonia and low birth-weight babies. It affects billions of people. And if you think it ...

As the climate changes, large parts of southern Australia are projected to get drier. Extreme rains are also becoming more common. For farmers, these changes pose big risks. What can we do to manage ...

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 ...