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Adding biochar to compost cuts methane and nitrous oxide emissions. It helps composting become more climate friendly.

Soil pollution from pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals is a growing threat to global food security and ...

The legacy of previous generations' use of the insecticide DDT still affects us today. During the 50s and 60s, the substance ...

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 ...

Biochar, made from plant waste, can restore carbon in fragile pasture soils, boost fertility, and support climate resilience.

This garden material doesn't directly add nutrients to soil. Instead, it helps keep the nutrients present for longer and ...

A new review of research suggests that the nature-based technology biochar -- a carbon-rich material -- could be an important tool to use in agriculture to help mitigate climate change. A new review ...

Whereas offsetting emissions by paying to plant trees is somewhat precarious because those forests can be lost to wildfires, biochar is more durable — it can persist in soil for millennia. Biochar is ...

Researchers have uncovered how dissolved biochar—tiny carbon particles derived from burning plant material—affects soil ...