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.

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 ...

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The field experiment was conducted over two consecutive growing seasons (May–October 2023 and 2024) at the Harold R. Benson Research and Demonstration Farm at Kentucky State University, Frankfort, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 10,000 tons of downed trees and woody waste that Douglas County’s planned biochar facility will process in a year will mean 10,000 fewer tons of fuel ...

Production of biochar from organic wastes promises to be an interesting source of plant nutrients, thus reducing pressure on natural resources. To assess the effect of biochar prepared from wastes ...

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 ...

Global biochar industry projected to nearly triple in value to over $2 billion by 2032 Biochar accounts for over 90% of carbon removal credits but supply struggles to meet demand Small-scale biochar ...

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 ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – 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 ...