India generates over 600 million metric tonnes of agricultural residue and over 60 million tonnes of municipal solid waste ...

Biochar is a charcoal-like material produced from organic matter during a process known as pyrolysis. The “feedstock,” whether wood chips, crop residues, manure or other biomass, is heated in ...

For generations, farmers have used natural materials such as lime, gypsum and manure to improve their soil for growing crops.

Horticultural charcoal is becoming an increasingly common soil amendment, but when it comes to healing sick toxic soils, activated charcoal is the treatment of choice.

In Europe, biochar has not only been researched as a construction material, but it has also been used in road construction, as aggregate for asphalt and cement composites. One example is a ...

Biochar is a fine-grained, highly porous soil additive. It looks like charcoal because it’s manufactured with the same method used to create the lumps of carbon called briquettes.

Biochar is a material that can be created in a range of rudimentary ways by home gardeners and growers. It can be created in a pit in the ground, in a clay charcoal oven, or in a DIY furnace, and ...

Biochar gained recognition in the early 2000s when scientists published findings about charcoal that was purposefully created by Indigenous people of the Amazon region to incorporate into their soil.

The project, established by BLM and the U.S. Forest Service, aims to find a safer, cleaner way to burn the unusable woody waste from the fire in 2020 and study how biochar can be used to benefit ...

Known as biochar, this black substance created by heating biomass and other agricultural waste can store carbon for hundreds of years and improve soil quality at the same time. It’s a “true ...

Biochar, a charcoal-like substance made by heating organic material in an oxygen-free environment, contains carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere and can be recycled for other uses.