Study finds multiple benefits from using biochar in agriculture

The frequency and strength of soil freeze-thaw alternation have been increasing with the aggravation of climate change, which will affect soil physicochemical properties and biological characteristics and in turn alter soil carbon (C) emissions. The emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH...

Global warming and biological invasion are the main aspects of global change. Understanding the effects of warming on soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions represents a challenge to comprehending the feedbacks associated with climate change. Asymmetric warming due to the greater warming during the...

The application of nitrogen (N) fertilizer can promote rice yield, but is accompanied by considerable quantities of ammonia (NH₃) volatilization and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The effect of N-fertilization to these gas emissions in saline-alkali paddy ecosystems is unclear. A 137-day...

Simulating the impacts of biochar and controlled irrigation (CI, a water-saving irrigation technology without surface ponding of water) combination on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from paddy fields is crucial, however, the original DNDC model is not capable of capturing these management impacts...

Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population, but rice cultivation is a significant source of atmospheric methane (CH₄). Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) reduces CH₄ emission from paddy field, but the effect on rice yield remains unclear. Organic soil amendment...

Biowaste valorization is a means for tackling resource depletion and climate change, which gives rise to environmental benefits and economic growth. One of the most known technological routes to convert biowaste into bioproducts is pyrolysis, which may conduct with and without catalyst application. ...

Although the presence of nanoplastics in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems has received increasing attention, little is known about its potential effect on ecosystem processes and functions. Here, we evaluated if differentially charged polystyrene (PS) nanoplastics (PS-NH₂ and PS-SO₃H) exhibit...

Wetlands sequestrate carbon at the highest rate than any other ecosystems on Earth. However, the spatial and temporal dynamics of GHGs emissions from the wetland ecosystems in China are still elusive. We synthesized 166 publications that contain 462 in situ measurements of GHGs emissions from the...

Few complex studies of greenhouse gas (GHG: carbon dioxide, CO₂; methane, CH₄; nitrous oxide, N₂O) fluxes and carbon cycle components were carried out on the geographical territory of Eastern Europe and represented in world databases. Most of the investigations had focused on particular problems of ...