Chicago-based software company becomes first tech firm to fund biochar kilns in Thailand's most polluted region, building on $50,000+ ocean conservation donations made to date.

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

If you take organic waste, subject it to high heat and starve it of oxygen, you will, through a process called pyrolysis, wind up with a pile of char — also known these days as biochar — that doesn’t ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists believe that biochar, the partially burned remains of plants, has been used as fertilizer for at least 2,000 years in the Amazon Basin. Since initial studies published several years ago ...

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 ...