Emerging contaminants are rapidly becoming a global environmental challenge, posing risks to soil health, water quality, and ...

The presence of antibiotics in water resources can be limited by means of a biochar-enhanced photocatalyst developed by ...

While you typically need fertilizer when gardening, charcoal is an effective alternative that serves more functions, too.

A new study reveals that adding small amounts of biochar, a carbon-rich material made from agricultural waste, can ...

The treatment with biochar means that plants may take up less DDT from the soil as well, but they accumulate very little even without treatment. "The reason why the contaminated land is left unused ...

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

Biochar is a soil-improvement material with great potential for a variety of applications. It is similar to charcoal and barbecue charcoal, but biochar is produced specifically to be added to arable ...

Biochar binds DDT effectively, so that the toxin is not taken up by soil organisms. Credit: Anja Enell, the Swedish Geotechnical Institute. Biochar binds DDT effectively, so that the toxin is not ...