Retrieved as trash and unloaded as treasure, piles of dead wood are dropped off at this biochar facility in Berthoud, Colorado, for an opportunity at a second life. James Gaspard is the CEO of this ...

It’s incredibly easy to dump carbon into the atmosphere and accelerate climate change. It’s a lot harder to take it out. Startups are experimenting with massive industrial systems to draw the ...

Ready to remove a real Christmas tree from the living room? Consider donating it to feed a goat. The 130-acre Topaz Farm on ...

A new forest product sector in Maine is heating up as startup companies establish facilities to turn forest residuals into a versatile high-value product called biochar. Biochar is the solid material ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In a roundabout way, coal is solar-powered. Millions of years ago, swamp plants ...

Seven cities across the globe will be investing in carbon sequestration projects made possible with investments from Bloomberg Philanthropies. In 2014, the Stockholm Biochar Project, which focused on ...

LYONS, Ore. — Tech giant Microsoft is investing in carbon credits generated by an Oregon wood products company to help reduce, and eventually erase, its carbon footprint. The offsets come from biochar ...

Researchers from the Bartlett Tree Experts and the Morton Arboretum are conducting a joint study on biochar and urban trees. "What we're doing here at this site is testing the effects of biochar on ...

Biochar -- a charcoal-like substance made primarily from agricultural waste products -- holds promise for removing emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals from treated wastewater. That's the ...