Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An engineer in Africa has discovered a brilliant way to transform organic waste into environmentally friendly charcoal. Biochar is ...

Elkhorn Slough Foundation is producing biochar from invasive eucalyptus trees removed to restore native ecosystems around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mike Schmitt, director of sales and marketing with Air Burners, is photographed next to a BioCharger unit on Jan. 8 in Palm City.

On a warm morning in Polk County, heavy equipment hummed through rows of citrus as a mobile carbonizer known as a “Tigercat” converted trees and grove debris into biochar — a porous, charcoal-like ...

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

Biochar is a form of charcoal (mostly carbon) produced by heating organic matter in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. This avoids the production of carbon dioxide and locks up the ...

Researchers have developed a practical and low cost method to transform agricultural waste into high quality biochar, significantly increasing its ...