HIGHLAND PARK Fla. — A Florida nonprofit is on a mission to revive the state’s farmland with sustainability in mind. Biotech Applied Research is turning waste into “biochar,” a charcoal-like material.

Biochar is produced from wood waste by heating it in a low-oxygen environment called pyrolysis, converting it into stabilized ...

San Juan County landowners have a unique opportunity this winter to learn a centuries-old practice with modern applications: converting woody debris into biochar using low-emission kilns. The San Juan ...

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Chicago-based software company becomes first tech firm to fund biochar kilns in Thailand's most polluted region, building on $50,000+ ocean conservation donations made to date. The partnership ...

These kilns, designed by Kwanpiromtara (Aom) Suksri, COO at Biochar Life, who has 12 years of biochar expertise, will be the first to enter full production use in Phrao district, transforming what ...

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Biochar is a carbon rich, porous material produced when biomass is heated in the absence of oxygen, a process known as pyrolysis. In the case of livestock operations, typical feedstocks include cattle ...

Note: This is the fourth of a four-part series on biochar. You can find the first three parts of the series here. Container substrates must fulfill several functions for plant growth: create a ...

The plot of land that Isaac Wanyama tends in Vihiga County tells a familiar story across Western Kenya: exhausted soil, declining yields, and a struggling farmer caught between desperation and ...