A new study published in Biochar reveals that alkaline biochar, a type of carbon-rich soil amendment, significantly improves microbial carbon use efficiency and nutrient cycling in saline-alkali soils ...
Soil contamination by cadmium is a growing global challenge that threatens food safety, agricultural productivity, and ...
Widespread use of biochar as a soil amendment can reduce carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. Biochar is biomass that has been heated without oxygen. This is called ...
Soils do more than store carbon from plant residues. Beneath our feet, vast communities of microbes quietly pull carbon dioxide from the air and ...
Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...
Manure is a reality in raising farm animals. Manure can be a useful fertilizer, returning valued nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to the soil for plant growth. But manure has problems. Odor ...
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 ...
LAKE CITY — The Missaukee Conservation District is hosting the Renewable Roots Convention on Nov. 18-19. The event hosted at the Timber Wolf Lake Camp at 4909 N. Morey Road will feature experts from ...
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(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) GA, UNITED STATES, July 1, 2025 /EINPresswire / -- Biochar has long been hailed as a sustainable tool to improve soil fertility and boost crop yields, but a new scientific ...
To optimize the agricultural and environmental benefits of biochar, a charcoal-rich soil additive, we need to overcome its potentially undesirable effects (see Nature 517, 258–260; 2015). Tilling deep ...
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