In about 500 B.C., indigenous people in the Amazon began using pyrogenic carbon to increase soil fertility in nutrient-poor jungle soils. Pyrogenic carbon is the material produced by burning biomass — ...

Charcoal produced by wildfires could trap carbon for hundreds of years and help mitigate climate change, according to new research. A new study quantifies the important role that charcoal plays in ...

1 Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 2 Environmental Engineering Program, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado 80309 3 ...

Burned organic matter—so-called pyrogenic organic matter—retains ammonia by forming covalent bonds with the molecule at normal temperatures and pressures, according to a new study by former Cornell ...

A recent study led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Zurich has revealed that the organic compounds proposed for carbon sequestration in deep ...

Areas of the Amazon forest with higher concentration of soil pyrogenic carbon, a material produced by the burning of vegetation centuries or millennia ago, show an enhanced resistance to droughts, a ...

Wacker Chemie plans to spend $150 million to build a pyrogenic silica plant at its facility in Charleston, Tenn. Set to open in the first half of 2019, the plant will have annual capacity of about ...