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India generates over 600 million metric tonnes of agricultural residue and over 60 million tonnes of municipal solid waste ...

Using biochar doesn’t mean you stop using fertilisers – but it can help farmers get more out of soil additives. It also has a very high water-holding capacity of up to 60% of its volume.

This company is combatting climate change by turning organic waste into a carbon-rich material called biochar.

The qualities that make up biochar vary depending upon the material that it comes from (feedstocks; i.e. timber slash, corn stalks, manure, etc.) and the temperature at which combustion occurs.” ...

From the citrus fields of Japan to the willow forests of Wales and the cropland of the Amazon Basin, farmers have used biochar—the practice of burying charcoal in soil to improve fertility—for ...

The source of the biochar must also be sustainable. Forests, which already store carbon, should not be clear-cut to make biochar, the UN warned in its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

Join the Renewable Roots Convention in Michigan on Nov. 18-19 to learn about biochar's benefits and environmental education. Low ticket prices for educators and farmers.

Retrieved as trash and unloaded as treasure, piles of dead wood are dropped off at this biochar facility in Berthoud, Colorado, for an opportunity at a second life. James Gaspard is the CEO of ...