Emerging pollutants such as pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and industrial chemicals are increasingly detected in water ...

Research between Penn State and some European institutions is trying to identify risks associated with biochar to make a ...

For people living in forested areas, the question of how to manage wood debris is One option is to burn brush and wood piles.

Biochar could scale using crops grown on abandoned land, offering a low-cost way to remove carbon and improve soil health.

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 ...

A new study has developed an innovative biochar-based nanomaterial that can rapidly remove harmful herbicides from soil while ...

Researchers have developed a new type of engineered biochar that can deliver oxygen in a controlled and stable way, offering ...

A closed-loop recycling initiative in Napa and Sonoma is remanufacturing used plastic stretch film. Betsy Andrews examines ...