On a site next to a sawmill in Waverly, Virginia, a startup takes sawdust and offcuts from the mill and heats it up to turn it into biochar, a material that can store carbon for hundreds or thousands ...

In a new study, researchers show how a simple system using woodchips and a bit of glorified sawdust --- designer biochar --- can dramatically reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and multiple common drugs in ...

Biochar is widely studied for carbon capture but a new study challenges the assumption that only the smallest pores matter showing larger pores may contribute more actively.

A new study reports a promising approach to transform agricultural and industrial waste into high-performance porous carbon materials that could help ...

What happens to ibuprofen after it eases your throbbing headache? Like many pharmaceuticals, it can remain in an active form when our bodies flush it out. That’s a problem, because although wastewater ...