Biochar is widely promoted as a climate friendly soil amendment that can store carbon and improve crop growth. Yet scientists ...

By tracing the exact microbial pathways responsible for N₂O production, the scientists reveal why the same soil amendment ...

Biochar is gaining popularity with viticulturists for its ability to sequester carbon and improve soil health, but ...

A research team has uncovered strikingly different effects of biochar on nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions from acidic agricultural soils, showing that ...

A closed-loop recycling initiative in Napa and Sonoma is remanufacturing used plastic stretch film. Betsy Andrews examines the benefits and limitations of biochar; a look at Pacines Ranch and their ...

Biochar is a “charcoal-like substance that’s made by burning organic material from agricultural and forestry wastes (also called biomass) in a controlled process called pyrolysis,” according to ...

Scientists have uncovered how different types of biochar influence the movement of water in agricultural soils that contain excessive phosphorus, offering new insights into how farmers can reduce ...

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 study uncovers how specially engineered biochar can more effectively capture organic phosphorus, offering a promising solution to reduce ...