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For China and the world to achieve carbon neutrality will require both a steep reduction in “anthropogenic”, or human-caused, CO2 emissions and the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. In pursuit of ...

A company is processing wood chips into biochar for use as a soil amendment. Now, it wants to do the same with sewage solids.

It doesn’t look like much, but a lot of hopes rest on biochar. Flickr/visionshare In our efforts to address climate change by avoiding or sequestering CO₂, we have shown a lot of interest in ...

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Biochar removes CO2 from the air, improves soil quality, creates clean energy, and it's surprisingly easy to come by. Shea Gunther is a writer, entrepreneur, and podcaster living in Portland, Maine.