For people living in forested areas, the question of how to manage wood debris is One option is to burn brush and wood piles.

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 ...

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 ...

Elkhorn Slough Foundation is producing biochar from invasive eucalyptus trees removed to restore native ecosystems around Elkhorn Slough.

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 ...

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed ...

Scientists found that biochar doesn’t just capture pollutants, it actively destroys them using direct electron transfer. This newly recognized ability accounts for up to 40% of its cleaning power and ...

A closed-loop recycling initiative in Napa and Sonoma is remanufacturing used plastic stretch film. Betsy Andrews examines ...