A household waste product that normally ends up in a bin may have another use: helping clean used household water. Researchers in Ethiopia converted discarded banana peels into biochar and tested the ...

California has a methane problem. The state’s dairy industry is the largest in the nation, but all those dairy cattle are producing more than milk. Foul-smelling slurry ponds of manure dot the Central ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters that capture both ammonia and tiny plastic ...

A new study shows how the material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors can be mixed with local soil to filter out road grime before it reaches waterways. Professor Yongsheng ...

In a breakthrough for environmental remediation, researchers at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia have reported the successful use of biochar derived from corn cob for the adsorption of ...

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Or support our Kickstarter campaign! Millions of tons of organic waste from agriculture and forestry operations are left to ...

A quick, cheap and easy way has been developed to filter from water one of the world’s most common pollutants: arsenic. Arsenic is one of the most common environmental pollutants, finding its way into ...

In the video below, our UTRGV student SWEL (Soil and Water Environmental Lab) team presents a research project titled “Biochar-Geomedia Water Filter for the Colonias, South Texas”. The project ...

Team members Garielle Rodriguez and Sarah Thomas introduce the challenges of lead in drinking water, and the teams approach to addressing this problem through decentralized treatment with a ...

A charcoal-like material made from leaves and branches that collect on forest floors could be a cheap, sustainable way to keep pollution from washing off roadways and into Georgia's lakes and rivers.