For people living in forested areas, the question of how to manage wood debris is One option is to burn brush and wood piles.

After three public meetings of the Fire Safety Advisory Committee (FSAC), during which refinement and discussion occurred, the FSAC recommended that the City Council consider a pilot program for the ...

Nick Cuchetti, a farmer and board secretary of Missouri Organic Association, holds biochar at Oaklee Rose Farm in Luebbering, Missouri. Biochar is an organic waste material that can help improve soil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buckthorn is one of the most difficult invasive plants to deal with in Minnesota and the solution usually involves removing it and ...

San Juan County landowners have a unique opportunity this winter to learn a centuries-old practice with modern applications: converting woody debris into biochar using low-emission kilns. The San Juan ...

BAXTER — Seventeen volunteers joined Great River Greening Oct. 28 at Camp Vanasek in Baxter for a biochar kiln burn. Biochar kilns aid in conservation efforts by converting organic waste (like ...

I was interested in falconry in my grade-school years, and became quite proficient at tree climbing, although I never had any safety equipment. Something unheard of today. We were never to let our ...

A technology has been developed to quickly convert livestock manure, a significant issue in animal farming, into valuable "black gold" rich in carbon within a day. Dr. Yoo Ji-ho and his research team ...

The Cook County Highway Department in Minnesota is looking to remove miles of invasive plant species and turn them into biochar as part of its invasive species management plan. Robbie Kimmel-Hass, a ...

It’s one of the world’s biggest killers, leading to lung cancer, heart disease, and COPD, not to mention child pneumonia and low birth-weight babies. It affects billions of people. And if you think it ...