In lush South Florida, trees and bushes grow all year round. And that means yard waste and dead trees never stop piling up.

On a site next to a sawmill in Waverly, Virginia, a startup takes sawdust and offcuts from the mill and heats it up to turn it into biochar, a material that can store carbon for hundreds or thousands ...

The food that makes it to your plate is but a fraction of what actually grew in a field somewhere. Cassava, corn, wheat, rice — all critical crops produce waste biomass that farmers might be burning ...

Cadmium contamination in agricultural soils is a growing global concern, threatening food safety, crop productivity, and human health. New research shows that not all biochars work the same way and ...

A researcher cups a handful of biochar, a kind of advanced charcoal that can sequester carbon and provide other environmental benefits in Coleraine on Sept. 19.

Biochar, a carbon rich material made by heating agricultural and forestry waste under low oxygen conditions, has long been valued for improving soil ...

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 ...

Robinson Lumber says the smokestack does not have any environmental or quality-of-life impacts for the neighborhood.

This article is authored by Suman S, director, operations and Kumar Abbhishek, senior technical lead, Dr Reddy’s Foundation.