Carbon seize: Farmers within the UK will bury burnt wooden in fields to seize CO2

A big trial is underway to see how a lot CO2 will be faraway from the ambiance by burying a charcoal-like materials in fields

By Adam Vaughan

Farmers in England are beginning to bury a charcoal-like materials of their fields to see if it might provide a brand new large-scale approach of placing the brakes on local weather change.

Biochar is the carbon-rich materials left over from burning wooden and different biomass at excessive temperatures in an oxygen-free atmosphere. Most of its use immediately is on the small scale, equivalent to gardeners utilizing it as a fertiliser.

Nonetheless, a workforce led by Colin Snape on the …