In a breakthrough for environmental remediation, researchers at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia have reported the successful use of biochar derived from corn cob for the adsorption of ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters that capture both ammonia and tiny plastic ...

Coffee grounds can be used to filter heavy metals from water. To do this, biochar must be created through heating. A research team from Loughborough University, in collaboration with Banaras Hindu ...

Over many centuries — perhaps millennia — primitive peoples plowed biochar into farm fields, turning poor soil into rich cropland. In fact, it’s such a miraculous soil amendment that 20 years ago ...