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.

Clean-air activists are exploring whether vegetative material that goes up in smoke through local agricultural burning instead could be converted into a product that could be used as a soil supplement ...

It’s one of the world’s biggest killers, leading to lung cancer, heart disease, and COPD, not to mention child pneumonia and low birth-weight babies. It affects billions of people. And if you think it ...

An engineer in Africa has discovered a brilliant way to transform organic waste into environmentally friendly charcoal. Biochar is an ecological charcoal. Djeutchou has figured out how to make it out ...

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

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 porous, charcoal-like ...

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