A five year field study in southern China shows that a single application of biochar combined with reduced nitrogen ...

Soil microbes remove carbon from the atmosphere and store it underground, revealing an overlooked pathway for storage in agricultural soils.

Biochar, a charcoal-like material derived from plant biomass, has long been hailed as a promising tool for carbon dioxide ...

Nitrogen dioxide is one of the most harmful air pollutants in urban and industrial regions, contributing to respiratory ...

BRAINERD — Great River Greening is seeking volunteers for its largest biochar production event to date, in partnership with ...

AMES, Iowa – Heat up stalks, stems, leaves or wood in a reactor with little or no oxygen (in a process called pyrolysis) and you get bio-oil for fuel and biochar for fertilizer. There’s always a ...

Soil is often overlooked in climate conversations, but it might just be our greatest ally in the fight against rising carbon ...

In the late 1990s, soil scientist Johannes Lehmann was working in the central Amazon to help restore degraded soils. Other researchers had discovered that the region’s fertile terra preta, meaning ...

Ellen Moon receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Wendy Timms receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the CO2CRC and the Victorian Government. She is also affiliated ...

Biochar has been heralded as a solution to a number of agricultural and environmental ills. To get the most benefit from its application, environmental and social circumstances should both be ...