Biochar

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How do you deal with 9m tonnes of suffocating seaweed?
Across the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, scientists are developing alternative sustainable solutions to the golden tide of Sargassum

Anna Turns

30, Jun, 2020 @5:30 AM

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The Upside's best things that happened in 2019
Here are our highlights – tell us yours and we’ll showcase them in next week’s Christmas newsletter

Mark Rice-Oxley

13, Dec, 2019 @11:00 AM

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Negative emissions tech: can more trees, carbon capture or biochar solve our CO2 problem?
As CO2 levels rise, controversial techniques including carbon capture and storage, enhanced weathering and reforestation may be solutions

Bianca Nogrady

04, May, 2017 @11:40 PM

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Cool Planet: can biochar fertilize soil and help fight climate change?
Market information and long-term impacts remain unknown, but a biofuel byproduct can store carbon – and its market is growing despite higher costs

Priyanka Sharma-Sindhar

02, Sep, 2014 @11:40 AM

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Leaked IPCC climate plan to worsen global warming - ecologists | Nafeez Ahmed

Nafeez Ahmed: Critics say bioenergy, carbon capture, among draft report's 'false solutions' to sustain business as usual economics

Nafeez Ahmed

07, Apr, 2014 @1:31 PM

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Could barbecues help fight climate change? | Duncan Clark

Duncan Clark: Durwood Zaelke's emergency plan for tackling climate change ranges from the Montreal protocol to carbon-negative barbecues

Duncan Clark

21, Oct, 2010 @6:00 AM

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UK government urged to evaluate biochar potential with trial schemes

First official report says burying charcoal in the soil has potential to cut greenhouse gases but scientific uncertainties remain

Jane Dudman

12, Aug, 2010 @10:33 AM

Manchester Report: Locking up carbon with biochar

Turning crop wastes and other biomass into charcoal and spreading it on tropical soils can sequester carbon and boost crop productivity

Duncan Clark

12, Jul, 2009 @11:10 PM

Letters: Credit and criticism for biochar

Letters: To grow biomass merely to provide biochar may well not be a viable option

28, Mar, 2009 @12:01 AM

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George Monbiot: biochar advocates must cool enthusiasm for setting fire to the planet

Reactions to my 'biochar' stance got a lot of people fired up, but I was too soft on one champion of so-called development, writes George Monbiot

George Monbiot

27, Mar, 2009 @11:04 AM

Biochar schemes are the best way to save us from climate catastrophe

Response: Biochar schemes would remove carbon from the atmosphere and increase food supply, says Peter Read

Peter Read

27, Mar, 2009 @12:01 AM

We never said biochar is a miracle cure

George Monbiot's implication that we believe biochar is a miracle solution to CO2 reduction is grossly misunderstood, say Pushker Kharecha and Jim Hansen

Pushker Kharecha and Jim Hansen

25, Mar, 2009 @1:16 PM

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