Corn cob biochar made from farm waste can remove up to two thirds of ammonia and almost all micro and nanoplastics from water ...

In a breakthrough for environmental remediation, researchers at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia have reported the successful use of biochar derived from corn cob for the adsorption of ...

California has a methane problem. The state’s dairy industry is the largest in the nation, but all those dairy cattle are producing more than milk. Foul-smelling slurry ponds of manure dot the Central ...

Marshall Webb is accustomed to getting his hands dirty. After all, he’s the woodlands manager at Shelburne Farms, the sprawling agricultural estate on Lake Champlain that has been in his family for ...

Haywood farmers can tap into an exciting new technology to improve their soil nutrients. And the tech will also help WNC ...

MDI Biological Laboratory Associate Professor Jane Disney, Ph.D., and partners at Northern Tilth, Maine Laboratories, College of the Atlantic and Northeastern’s Roux Institute were awarded $50,000 in ...

Over many centuries — perhaps millennia — primitive peoples plowed biochar into farm fields, turning poor soil into rich cropland. In fact, it’s such a miraculous soil amendment that 20 years ago ...