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Biochar Is ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’ for Sequestering Carbon and Combating Climate Change

Made from heating wood and other biomass at high temperatures with no oxygen, biochar mixed in soils dominated the carbon offset marketplace last year in tons of warming gases absorbed from the atmosphere.

By Lindsey Byman

A worker lays out biochar to dry in the sun before it is packed and distributed in Lugazi, Uganda. Credit: Michele Sibiloni/AFP via Getty Images
A farm worker applies biochar in the field during a demonstration at a farm near Windhoek, capital of Namibia, on Oct. 8, 2020. Credit: Musa C Kaseke/Xinhua via Getty Images

Biochar Traps Water and Fixes Carbon in Soil, Helping the Climate. But It’s Expensive

By Jonathan Moens

UK Government Urged to Evaluate Biochar Potential with Trial Schemes

By Guest Writer

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Biochar and George Monbiot's Misguided Rant

By Max Ajl

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