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Tucked into a federal recycling bill is what critics call the plastics industry's Project 2025

In Washington D.C. the U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technology Office announced Oak Ridge National Laboratory successfully tested biointermediates in marine engines, representing a significant milestone in the quest to decarbonise large ocean-going vessels. In collaboration with national labs NREL, PNNL, and ANL, ORNL evaluated biointermediates derived from wood and municipal waste in a unique […]

The particles are everywhere, and they may harm human health.

Across the world, farmers are turning waste biomass into biochar, improving soils, boosting yields, and creating a new source of income.

Using bacteria to take a bite out of plastic pollution is not new. But can the same microbes be used as a food source?

Steve and Beth McDaniel, cofounders of Reactive Surfaces, set out to mimic lichen, a natural carbon sink.

In Nigeria, the Punch newspaper reports a professor from University of Ilorin has successfully produced biodiesel by using eggshells as a catalyst for transesterification in an effort to increase the availability of locally available products for biofuel production. She said using eggshells would help to increase the economic viability of the domestic poultry indsutry while […]

Over the last 15 million years, Australia has slowly dried out. After humans arrived more than 65,000 years ago, they learned to use fire to their advantage. Today, fire weather is getting more frequent—and fires are following as the world heats up. This month, fires have flared in Victoria, destroying 46 houses, while Western Australia endures a heat wave and braces for potential fires.

Startups are processing plant waste into concentrated carbon to be buried or injected underground. It's like fossil fuels, but in reverse.

The new machine-learning algorithm can distinguish between biological and nonbiological samples with 90% accuracy. Exactly how is a mystery.

The glorified charcoal is rare on American farms, yet it has become a focal point in the movement to make agriculture a climate solution.

Used coffee grounds that are heat treated increase the compression strength of concrete.

The biochar process is being studied by researchers who claim it could tackle River Wye pollution.

Seaweeds cultivated in the sea off the coast of Trøndelag, Norway, will be converted into biocoal and used to improve agricultural land. A new method for carbon capture and storage is now being trialed by Norwegian researchers.

Researchers led by Prof. Zhang Weijun from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have found that a decrease of about 35% of single scattering albedo (SSA) at 365–405 nm would cause a 46% decrease in direct radiative forcing (DRF) efficiency at ground albedo. The research was published in Science of the Total Environment.

Is it the next big solution to plastic pollution or is it making the problem worse?

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From Colorado's high desert to the wooded hills of northwest Pennsylvania, millions of deserted oil and gas wells plunge thousands of feet into the earth after fossil fuels have been pumped out, combusted and released as carbon dioxide. They have long been symbols of pollution.

Colorado lawmakers have proposed a bill to study whether a type of charcoal could be used to plug deserted oil and gas wells