As two important greenhouse gases, about 20% and 62% of global carbon dioxide (CO 2) and nitrous oxide (N 2 O) emissions originate from the soil, especially agricultural and forest soils. Therefore, ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have recently developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar. When they mixed biochar into ...

DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin ...

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 the virtual gardening circle, the terms “biochar” and terra preta have been receiving a great deal of attention. It all started when archeologists in the Amazon discovered the remains of indigenous ...

The effect of cattle manure biochar and earthworm addition toward CO 2 and N 2 O emission in agrocultural and forest soils. Credit: Higher Education Press Limited Company Therefore, just as the ...

When they mixed biochar into contaminated soil at a former tree nursery, DDT uptake by earthworms in the soil was halved. That method may enable the growing of certain crops on land that is currently ...