Miami-Dade and Coral Gables plan to adopt biochar tech to turn hurricane debris, yard waste into fertilizer and construction mix while lowering pollution.

Farmers around the world rely on nitrogen fertilizers to sustain crop production, but in many alkaline soils a large share of ...

In rural Arkansas, researchers with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture are exploring the potential of biochar to replace synthetic fertilizers in hay production -- especially ...

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 ...

Why Gardeners Swear by Biochar — And How You Can Make Your Own originally appeared on Dengarden. It's possible you've heard of biochar or know someone who uses it, but if you're reading this, then you ...

An ancient soil amendment—biochar—could be a promising tool for future soil health enhancement and maintenance, according to a study by the Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences. Amit Dhingra ...

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 ...

Comparison with the control plant (microscopy on the left) reveals that symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi is stronger when tomato seedlings are fertilized with biochar based on wheat straw (center).

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 ...