Local parks in Cincinnati have been using an ingredient called biochar to help trees grow. They’ve been purchasing it from ...

Burning trees to help other trees grow? It sounds counterintuitive, but using biochar to improve soil conditions is a ...

Buckthorn is one of the most difficult invasive plants to deal with in Minnesota and the solution usually involves removing it and burning the brush piles. But, for every pound of wood burned in an ...

Clean-air activists are exploring whether vegetative material that goes up in smoke through local agricultural burning instead could be converted into a product that could be used as a soil supplement ...

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 ...

Biochar is a form of charcoal (mostly carbon) produced by heating organic matter in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. This avoids the production of carbon dioxide and locks up the ...

In lush South Florida, trees and bushes grow all year round. And that means yard waste and dead trees never stop piling up. But leaving them in a landfill is a climate-warming issue. Two South Florida ...