CARSON CITY — State land stewards are experimenting with an ancient method to improve the health of Nevada forests and make use of the renewable resource — baking tree trunks and limbs in a slow ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a forested area near the tiny town of Riddle on Oregon’s west side, Ken Carloni kneels to examine a native orchid. His white ponytail juts out from under a newsboy cap. To the south, a mosaic of ...

BRAINERD — Controlled burns at Rotary Riverside Park are helping to clean the park of wood waste while returning nutrients back to the land through a process of creating biochar. Biochar is produced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 3—Thanks to a bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee last month, Toledo-based agroforestry and conservation startup Rake Force can ...

Chicago-based software company becomes first tech firm to fund biochar kilns in Thailand's most polluted region, building on $50,000+ ocean conservation donations made to date. The partnership ...