This Series A funding round is co-led by the Temasek-owned decarbonisation fund GenZero from Singapore and San Francisco-based venture capital firm True Ventures with participation from Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd).
Biochar Carbon Removal is a way to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with wide-ranging co-benefits. For example, Biochar’s use as a soil amendment can improve food security and soil health while removing carbon from the atmosphere. Businesses...
Biochar would be made from wood waste for the agricultural industry A pilot project to utilize biochar technology in a regional context and help the agricultural industry is being put forward by Wildsight. The Fire to Food project would be a circular...
Biochar is a charcoal-like substance produced by burning organic material from agricultural and forestry wastes (like wood chips, crop residues, or manure) under low-oxygen conditions. This process, known as pyrolysis, cooks the organic matter at high...
Summary Rocky Mountain Institute says BiCRS has potential to remove 5.5 gigtons of CO2 globally per year Biochar accounts for over 90% of carbon credits; IPCC says it has 'signifiant mitigation' potential Charm Industrial injecting bio-oil into abandoned...
Climate tech company Bio-Logical has raised a $1m seed round to scale up its operations in Kenya, facilitating its mission to build climate-resilient communities of smallholder farmers around the world. The funding round, led by the Steyn Group and Angel...
The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) – the non-profit member organization fostering stakeholder collaboration, good industry practices, environmental and ethical standards across the biochar sector, hosted its 2023 Virtual Annual Symposium that...
Biochar, a charcoal made from heating discarded organic materials such as crop residues, offers a path to lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) at a time when climate scientists warn that urgent action is needed limit CO2 in the atmosphere. New maps,...
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 of Anchorage. The land, logged years ago, was in an...
The first-of-its-kind data highlights biochar’s potential to scale carbon removals as a win-win solution for people and the planet. Ground-breaking new research shows that carbon removal solution biochar can play a significant role in global emissions...
Biochar is often overlooked as a means of sequestering carbon, but it is effective and inexpensive compared to many techno-fixes. Millions of tons of organic waste from agriculture and forestry operations are left to rot or get burned each year. Either...
The biochar was able to suck up to 23 percent of its weight in carbon dioxide from the air. Washington State University (WSU) researchers have engineered a carbon-negative, environmentally friendly concrete that is nearly as strong as regular concrete by...
Reducing emissions as far as possible, transforming our systems in anticipation of a warming world, and compensating for the carbon footprint we can't avoid: these are our main tools in tackling the climate crisis. But if we're to mitigate the soaring...
“I saw biochar in action and it blew me away. When you see white beach sand that is now capable of producing food because it’s a functioning soil, it doesn’t take long to be convinced.” A study done by Saskatchewan Polytech on soil reclamation involving...
A University of Sydney professor is using “digital soil mapping” to help measure soil carbon content in the field and encourage farmers to adopt the government’s Carbon Farming Initiative.
There is a growing interest in “carbon farming” among forward-looking agricultural producers in the United States. Ideas range from promoting on-farm practices such as conservation tilling and livestock rotation to establishing USDA-managed “carbon banks” to facilitate the buying and selling of agricultural carbon credits.
Biochar offers several benefits as a soil amendment, including increased soil fertility, carbon sequestration, and water-holding capacity in nutrient-poor soils. In this study, soil samples with and without biochar additives were collected for two consecutive years from an experimental field plot to examine its effect on the microbial community structure and functions in sandy soils under peach-trees.
Using pits from the Kewadin plant, Cornell researchers experimented with how to convert them to biochar, a charcoal-like, carbon-rich substance made by heating pits in a zero- or low-oxygen environment. Biochar is usually plowed or dug into farm fields and gardens to enrich the soil.
A Nova Scotia lumber company is turning to biochar as a solution to its wood chips and low-grade wood.
Biochar’s benefits for the long-term sequestration of carbon and nitrogen on American farms are clear, but new research from Rice University shows it can help farmers save money on irrigation as well. The study showed that sandy soil, in particular, gains ability to retain more water when amended with biochar.
Farmers in Australia are adding biochar to cattle feed in an effort to reduce methane emissions and increase soil carbon.
The biochar process is ingenious, turning green waste into heat before returning it to the soil as an agricultural nutrient. No wonder it’s turning a profit.
Maintaining soil organic matter is critical to tackling climate change because soil organic matter is rich in carbon. Soil carbon is also the keystone element controlling soil health, which enables soils to be resilient as droughts and intense rainfall events increasingly occur.
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel new method to recycle wood waste [as biochar] by incorporating it into cement and mortar mixtures, making the resulting materials both stronger and more watertight.
The idea of creating biochar by burning organic waste in oxygen-free chambers — and then burying it — is being touted as a way to cool the planet. But while it already is being produced on a small scale, biochar’s proponents and detractors are sharply...