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 ...
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 ...
Biochar has many uses in agricultural systems, with the most common being as a soil amendment, typically applied at rates of ...
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 ...
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Researchers find a new use for biochar: filtering microplastics from farm soils
Biochar enriches farm soils and can lock away tons of carbon each year. Now among these environmental attributes, researchers ...
“Biochar is often discussed as a promising carbon removal solution, but real-world farm implementation has been limited,” said lead author Yuzhou Tang. “Our study demonstrates that a ...
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 ...
Set to begin in February 2026, the project between Better Cotton and Planboo is intended to measure and monetise environmental improvements and study the feasibility of large-scale adoption in the ...
Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, applies biochar to his soil beds late last month at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering. BioChar, an organic waste material that ...
On Wilbourne Farm in Virginia, a carbon-removal experiment is underway. First a tractor sprays nearly 20 tonnes of gray crushed basalt over one field. Then the farmer makes several more passes ...
Standard Biocarbon said it plans to begin commercial production of high-quality biochar, left, from mill residuals in the coming three months. COURTESY / STANDARD BIOCARBON CORP. With installation of ...
Research between Penn State and some European institutions is trying to identify risks associated with biochar to make a ...
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