Biochar is a product of the thermal treatment of biomass, and it can be used for enhancing
soil health and productivity, soil carbon sequestration, absorbance of pollutants from water …

Biochar has been widely applied as a soil modifier to improve the physical properties and
increase the water content of the soil. Although the response of soil hydrological properties …

Drought and salt stress negatively affect soil fertility and plant growth. Application of biochar,
carbon-rich material developed from combustion of biomass under no or limited oxygen …

The degradation of soil fertility and quality due to rapid industrialization and human activities
has stimulated interest in the rehabilitation of low-fertility soils to sustainably improve crop …

Biochar can significantly alter water relations in soil and therefore, can play an important part
in increasing the resilience of agricultural systems to drought conditions. To enable …

As part of efforts to reduce pressure on the Amazon and other biomes, one approach
considered by Brazilian authorities and scientists is more intensive use of the soils of the …

Purpose Forests play a critical role in terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycling and the mitigation
of global climate change. Intensive forest management and global climate change have had …

Soil microbial communities are responsive to biochar amendments. As the residence time of
biochar in soil is expected to be hundreds to thousands of years, the changes in microbial …

The use of biochar as a soil amendment had been increasingly advocated for its effects on
carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emission mitigation as well as on improvement of …

A growing body of research into the effects of biochar on soil physical characteristics
suggests that it is most effective in coarse-textured soils. In this study, we set out to test this …