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In a lab outside Boulder Colorado, engineers are reinventing one of the dirtiest industrial processes on Earth—by swapping ...

Biochar enriches farm soils and can lock away tons of carbon each year. Now among these environmental attributes, researchers have found another beneficial use for this material: it could help sift ...

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