Biochar is often seen as a climate solution, but a new study shows it can either cut or boost nitrous oxide emissions depending on the soil.

The EPA award will examine how adding biochar to poultry litter can limit runoff of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus to improve water quality.

On a site next to a sawmill in Waverly, Virginia, a startup takes sawdust and offcuts from the mill and heats it up to turn it into biochar, a material that can store carbon for hundreds or thousands ...

A new study published in Biochar presents a practical and regulation-compliant design for producing biochar on farms that could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture while ...

Scientists have developed a new edge-of-field water-treatment system that reduces the load of excess nutrients washing into ...

Researchers at the University of Leeds unveil a farm-based biochar system that reduces manure emissions by 75%, sequesters carbon in soil ...

Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists, partnering with American Farmland Trust, extension educators and four Nebraska ...

Biochar traps microorganisms that can sequester carbon emissions in the soil for long periods of time, lessening farmers’ environmental impact. It can also help farmers by holding things like ...

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

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 ...

It’s incredibly easy to dump carbon into the atmosphere and accelerate climate change. It’s a lot harder to take it out. Startups are experimenting with massive industrial systems to draw the ...

The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday unveiled a new project that will turn leftover woody debris from the Holiday Farm Fire into charcoal, also known as biochar. The project, established by BLM ...