On McGregor Road in Pakenham, Victoria, a crew poured a stretch of footpath that looked like ordinary concrete.

Activated carbon and biochar have long been celebrated as workhorses of water purification, materials that latch onto heavy metals, organic pollutants, and other hazards and hold them tight. A new ...

Biochar has been heralded as one of agriculture’s most seductive fixes: a charcoal-like material that locks carbon into the ground for centuries, buoys soil fertility, and echoes the legendary A ...

That steady moisture may aid the reactions that make the material harden.

On-farm biochar production is a step closer to commercialisation after a UK biochar specialist launched an integrated biochar and heat recovery system on ...

Ten years ago, academic Lynne Loo was a scientist researching how waste could be repurposed in Australia. She began looking ...

Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout – and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried. The mystery led to a neighbouring farm, and a story of waste, pollution and dirty ...

Coffee concrete: Spent coffee grounds were transformed into biochar for a Pakenham footpath project. This innovation replaced ...

Rapid City Public Works Director Mike Theis explains how a Dakota Biochar partnership could turn storm debris into biochar and fix a compost problem.