University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, with other partners, is embarking on a large-scale three-year project to find more efficient ways to increase water conservation and plant growth, and ...

A cotton field showing biochar-treated soil on the right and conventional soil on the left. Credit: Planboo. Set to begin in February 2026, the project between Better Cotton and Planboo is intended to ...

ENTERPRISE — Funding from the federal farm bill is being put to innovative use in Wallowa County, allowing a local group to continue experimenting with biochar as a soil amendment. A portion of nearly ...

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 ...

An interview with Laurens Rademakers of Biochar Fund. Biochar—the agricultural application of charcoal produced from burning biomass—may be one of this century’s most important social and ...

Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that's more than 20 times more effective at trapping atmospheric heat than carbon dioxide, slowly leaks from old, abandoned landfills and town dumps. Researchers are ...

An ancient soil amendment—biochar—could be a promising tool for future soil health enhancement and maintenance, according to a study by the Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences. Amit Dhingra ...

In West Africa, many farmers move to the cities, where they cultivate soils, many of which are not very fertile. An international research team involved in the "Urban FoodPlus" project is looking for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the energy industry. The company calls itself ‘carbon negative,' since it produces biofuels identical in chemical ...

Kyle Petrocine, renewable energy manager for Wallowa Resources, said field tests in other regions have shown soil improvement when biochar is used as a soil amendment (Katy Nesbitt) ENTERPRISE — ...

“One of our top reasons for testing in Diamond Valley is that historically, water has been over allocated and over pumped there, leading to water scarcity,” Eureka County Extension Educator Fred ...