Each year, the world discards more than 10 million tons of spent coffee grounds, and most go to landfills or incinerators, ...

A new nitrogen-doped biochar made from agricultural waste boosts ozone treatment by more than 100 times, helping break down a common insect repellent pollutant in water DEET is valued for its ...

Phosphorus is essential for crop growth, but using it efficiently remains one of agriculture’s long-standing challenges. Farmers often apply large amounts of phosphorus fertilizer to maintain yields, ...

(Feature Impact) Almost every gardener knows the frustration: One corner of the garden bursts with life while another struggles to hang on. Flowers are slow to open, vegetables disappoint and the soil ...

At Oilfields High School in Diamond Valley, students are growing leafy greens, vine crops and root vegetables indoors using biochar as a soil-based growing medium. What began as an educational ...

The Flagstaff Water Group (FWG) is a group of five local scientists and engineers which is deeply concerned about water quality and availability. Over the past two years, we have been studying biochar ...

This study aims to enhance the dewatering performance of marine sediment using modified Enteromorpha algae-derived biochar to activate persulfate through an advanced oxidation process. Dehydration of ...

1 Insitute of Molecular Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Anhui University of Technology, Ma’anshan, China. 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Tongling University, Tongling, China. 3 Department of ...

The City of Helsinki explored the practical pathways for improved carbon sequestration, circular waste systems, and thriving urban vegetation via increasing the use of biochar on selected ...

If you take organic waste, subject it to high heat and starve it of oxygen, you will, through a process called pyrolysis, wind up with a pile of char — also known these days as biochar — that doesn’t ...