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 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 ...

Simon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an invasive menace: Prosopis juliflora, better known as the mathenge plant. Its long roots steal water from ...

Local parks in Cincinnati have been using an ingredient called biochar to help trees grow. They’ve been purchasing it from ...

Agricultural plastics help farmers grow crops more efficiently, but they also create a difficult waste problem when they ...

A field study reveals that combining biochar with organic fertilizer can significantly improve soil structure, nutrient availability, and beneficial microbial communities in dryland farming systems, ...

The Bureau of Land Management on Tuesday unveiled a new project that will turn leftover woody debris from the Holiday Farm Fire into charcoal, also known as biochar. The project, established by BLM ...

MENOKEN N.D. - Though many fields in the area remain damp from the wet, cool spring, the staff at Menoken Farm are finding plenty of projects to keep them busy, like no-till planting potatoes, working ...

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 ...