Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of ...

Biochar enriches farm soils and can lock away tons of carbon each year. Now among these environmental attributes, researchers ...

Biochar traps microorganisms that can sequester carbon emissions in the soil for long periods of time, lessening farmers’ environmental impact. It can also help farmers by holding things like ...

It’s incredibly easy to dump carbon into the atmosphere and accelerate climate change. It’s a lot harder to take it out. Startups are experimenting with massive industrial systems to draw the ...

Set to begin in February 2026, the project between Better Cotton and Planboo is intended to measure and monetise environmental improvements and study the feasibility of large-scale adoption in the ...

Agricultural plastics help farmers grow crops more efficiently, but they also create a difficult waste problem when they become tangled with plant residues after harvest. A study published in Biochar ...

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, applies biochar to his soil beds late last month at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering. BioChar, an organic waste material that ...

Simon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an invasive menace: Prosopis juliflora, better known as the mathenge plant. Its long roots steal water from ...

What if farmers could not only prevent excess phosphorus from polluting downstream waterways, but also recycle that nutrient as a slow-release fertilizer, all without spending a lot of money?

On Wilbourne Farm in Virginia, a carbon-removal experiment is underway. First a tractor sprays nearly 20 tonnes of gray crushed basalt over one field. Then the farmer makes several more passes ...

The facility has an annual processing capacity of approximately 20,000 tonnes and can process more than 50 metric tonnes of ...

A Jalgaon-based project in Maharashtra converts agricultural residue into biochar and clean energy, reducing pollution while creating a sustainable income source for local farmers.