Rapid industrial development and human activities have caused a degradation of soil
quality and fertility. There is increasing interest in rehabilitating low fertility soils to improve …

Biochar has been widely studied as a soil amendment to improve soil properties. When
different feedstocks are used to produce biochar under different pyrolysis conditions, the …

Although for the past 100 years, fertilizer technologies have increasingly used renewable
resources, the majority of manufactured products are still based on mineral deposits and …

Synthetic fertilizers have been revolutionary in the way that the increased production of food
crops has increased as a result of the application of synthetic fertilizers. Despite the fact that …

Environment-friendly, function tunable, and low-cost adsorbents/amendments from
agricultural residue-derived biochar show enormous potential for mitigating the environment …

Rapid development of livestock industry produces large amount of livestock manure rich in
nutrients, organic matters, antibiotics, and heavy metals, thus imposes great harms to human …

The amount of organic residue and waste in China and their uncertainties have not been
quantitatively analysed, due to the lack of reliable data and proper quantification tools. Here …

We investigated the use of biochar (10% on a dry weight basis) to improve the composting
process and/or the compost quality by adding it to either the feedstock mixture or the mature …

Biochar, a solid coproduct of biomass pyrolysis, has recently been proposed as soil
amendment in agriculture. We studied the effect of biochar on soil and substrate …

Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for all living organisms. At the current rate of
extraction, global reserves of mineable deposits will be exhausted within the next few …