carbon sequestration

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 […]

Farmers are increasingly turning to organic manure as alternative to chemical fertilisers to mitigate rising costs, cushion soil fertility and increase yields. Linet Achieng,35, is on such small-scale farmer who […]

By Laurie Schreiber With installation of key equipment completed, Standard Biocarbon plans to begin commercial production of high-quality biochar in the next three months. What is biochar? More Information The […]

Land application of biochar represents a “valuable” component of carbon farming through carbon sequestration, the reduction in GHG emissions with further eco-system service benefits. The following recommendations arise from the […]

A number of research scientists believe that the potential of our soils to sequester carbon has been seriously overestimated. Some recent studies, estimating the potential of farmland to store more […]

From hempcrete in construction to animal bedding, carbon sequestration to biochar, pallets to the phytoremediation of end-of-life mine sites, a plethora of market channels have opened up for industrial hemp […]

Nexus Development Capital, a Greenville, South Carolina-based provider of catalytic capital for sustainable infrastructure project developers, has announced a $5 million investment in biochar producer Standard Biocarbon, based in Enfield, […]

Dror Angel, a marine ecologist at the University of Haifa, had for years heard his archaeologist colleagues talk about ancient shipwrecks on the bottom of the Black Sea that were […]

The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research says it has awarded Rich Earth Institute a $330,256 Seeding Solutions grant to develop biochar from wastewater material. Manufacturers could use this biochar […]

German farmers in the Lower Oder Valley National Park on the eastern border with Poland faced a dilemma: what to do with grass that was useless as animal feed. Like […]