CARSON CITY — State land stewards are experimenting with an ancient method to improve the health of Nevada forests and make use of the renewable resource — baking tree trunks and limbs in a slow ...

Biochar is a “charcoal-like substance that’s made by burning organic material from agricultural and forestry wastes (also called biomass) in a controlled process called pyrolysis,” according to ...

Simon Kitol’s 25-acre farm in western Kenya teems with maize, tomatoes, and beans, but also an invasive menace: Prosopis juliflora, better known as the mathenge plant. Its long roots steal water from ...

Concrete is one of the most common materials on Earth, thanks to its high strength and low cost – but it’s also one of the largest single sources of carbon dioxide emissions. Engineers at Washington ...

A new scientific review reveals how residues from traditional Chinese medicine production can be transformed into high performance biochar materials ...

In rural Arkansas, a cooperative experiment is underway by scientists from the University of Arkansas at Monticello College of Forestry, Agriculture, and Natural Resources in collaboration with the ...

Ellen Moon receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Wendy Timms receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the CO2CRC and the Victorian Government. She is also affiliated ...

When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south ...