Terra preta, the ancient charcoal-based soil used by ancient Amazonians to create permanently fertile agricultural lands in the rainforest, is getting serious consideration as a means to fight ...

Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are at their highest level in more than 2 million years – and the world has yet ... to produce a form of charcoal, which can be ...

In Africa, firewood and charcoal provide energy for over half ... to Uganda having one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. From 1990 to 2018, forest cover declined from 24 percent ...

Every day, almost three billion people cook over firewood or charcoal, causing grave impacts on health and the environment. Inyenyeri, an innovative Rwandan company lead by an unlikely entrepreneur, ...

In 2012, the U.N. Security Council issued a resolution banning the export of charcoal from Somali in a bid to save the country’s decreasing tree cover. Ali understood the concern but saw tree ...

When Gibril Ali talks of “black gold”, he does not mean oil. He buys it in sacks, not barrels. He sells it to his customers in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, from a metal shack. But in Kenya ...

SAN NICOLAS DE BARI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - For Maria Elena Veiga, a 60-year-old Cuban housewife living on the outskirts of Havana, charcoal has become the go-to fuel for cooking due to frequent ...