Biochar is often overlooked as a soil amendment, but it's incredibly beneficial for plants and gardens, and it's easy to make at home. Created from burned wood and other organic matter, biochar can be ...

The water hyacinth in this study was collected from the river inside the Anhui Polytechnic University in Wuhu, Anhui Province, China. Cut the airing water hyacinth into 1–2 cm segments, and dried them ...

Biochar application is widely studied to mitigate the threats of soil degradation to food security and climate change. However, there are big variations in the effects of biochar application on crops, ...

I said in my recent book that perhaps the only tool we had to bring carbon dioxide back to pre-industrial levels was to let the biosphere pump it from the air for us. It currently removes 550bn tons a ...

As the climate changes, large parts of southern Australia are projected to get drier. Extreme rains are also becoming more common. For farmers, these changes pose big risks. What can we do to manage ...

A new study has shown that agricultural waste from lavender straw can be transformed into a highly sensitive biochar-based sensor for detecting ...