A new study reports a promising approach to transform agricultural and industrial waste into high-performance porous carbon materials that could help ...

Local farmers, researchers and agricultural scientists will gather to share the latest developments and progress in regenerative agriculture at the Annual California Soil Health Field Days, held on ...

Coral Gables is cashing a $1.5 million check from Miami‑Dade County while holding on to a key piece of land that could soon house one of the region’s most closely watched clim ...

The Edinburgh Toolkit is a suite of combinable methods designed for comprehensive assessment of biochar from the perspective of soil function. The tests offer comparison of alternate biochar products ...

Borges BMMN, Strauss M, Camelo PA, Sohi SP & Franco HCJ. 2020. Re-use of sugarcane residue as a novel biochar fertiliser - Increased phosphorus use efficiency and ...

Seventy-degree days in March are nice reminders that winter won't last forever, and spring will be here soon enough. The ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded nearly $1.9 million to Shannon Speir, an assistant professor of crop, soil, and environmental sciences at the University of Arkansas, to ...

Researchers have developed a new eco friendly method to transform biochar into a highly hydrophobic material that can repel water and absorb large ...

Biochar is widely promoted as a climate friendly soil amendment that can store carbon and improve crop growth. Yet scientists have long debated whether it always benefits soil ecosystems. A new study ...

The EPA award will examine how adding biochar to poultry litter can limit runoff of nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus to improve water quality.

While eastern South Dakota’s farmers deal with soil quality depleted by industrial agricultural practices, foresters in the Black Hills work to burn excess forest waste to prevent wildfires. Dakota ...