HIGHLAND PARK Fla. — A Florida nonprofit is on a mission to revive the state’s farmland with sustainability in mind. Biotech Applied Research is turning waste into “biochar,” a charcoal-like material.

Biochar is gaining popularity with wine producers for its promises of carbon sequestration, water retention, aeration, and microbial health in vineyard soils, but the totality of its impact is yet to ...

Clean Earth Innovations CEO Harold Gubnitsky leads wood chips into a conveyor belt to be turned into biochar during the launch of the company's pilot program at the South Dade Landfill on Friday, Feb.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The 10,000 tons of downed trees and woody waste that Douglas County’s planned biochar facility will process in a year will mean 10,000 fewer tons of fuel ...

In lush South Florida, trees and bushes grow all year round. And that means yard waste and dead trees never stop piling up. But leaving them in a landfill is a climate-warming issue. Two South Florida ...

Global biochar industry projected to nearly triple in value to over $2 billion by 2032 Biochar accounts for over 90% of carbon removal credits but supply struggles to meet demand Small-scale biochar ...

Scientists found that biochar doesn’t just capture pollutants, it actively destroys them using direct electron transfer. This newly recognized ability accounts for up to 40% of its cleaning power and ...

The food that makes it to your plate is but a fraction of what actually grew in a field somewhere. Cassava, corn, wheat, rice — all critical crops produce waste biomass that farmers might be burning ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. – On a warm morning in Polk County, heavy equipment hummed through rows of citrus as a mobile carbonizer known as a “Tigercat” converted trees and grove debris into biochar — a ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, August 27, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- Terraton, opens new tab, a full-stack biochar platform scaling carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in emerging markets, today announced it has raised $11.5 ...

Excrement contains nutrients needed for crop growth and a new source of them could cut farming’s huge CO2 output Charcoal made from human waste could help solve fertiliser shortages as well as reduce ...

The story so far: With the Indian carbon market set to be launched in 2026, CO2 removal technologies such as biochar are expected to play a crucial role. Biochar is a type of charcoal rich in carbon ...