In addition to sequestering carbon and enriching soil, researchers say a partly burned wood derivative — biochar — appears to have pesticide qualities.

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

Clean-air activists are exploring whether vegetative material that goes up in smoke through local agricultural burning instead could be converted into a product that could be used as a soil supplement ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...