CARSON CITY — State land stewards are experimenting with an ancient method to improve the health of Nevada forests and make use of the renewable resource — baking tree trunks and limbs in a slow ...
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 ...
Apr. 3—Thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee last month, Toledo-based agroforestry and conservation startup Rake Force can now use flame cap kilns to produce biochar. The legislation, Substitute ...
BAXTER — Seventeen volunteers joined Great River Greening Oct. 28 at Camp Vanasek in Baxter for a biochar kiln burn. Biochar kilns aid in conservation efforts by converting organic waste (like ...
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Leveraging biochar for growing crops

MANILA, Philippines — Because of its wondrous benefits, the government and the private sector should jointly harness biochar ...
Biochar as a material is not novel. It has been produced by humans for more than 2,000 years. But churning out the material ...
In a forested area near the tiny town of Riddle on Oregon’s west side, Ken Carloni kneels to examine a native orchid. His white ponytail juts out from under a newsboy cap. To the south, a mosaic of ...
Minneapolis is on track to become one of the first U.S. cities to invest in biochar, a multifunctional, charcoal-like material said to help grow bigger plants, reduce storm water runoff and remove ...
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. The partnership ...