The Journal: Biochar, Carbon Removal and Cleaner Air | Enable Earth
Field notes

The Journal

Plain explanations of the science behind what we do: biochar, carbon removal, and cleaner air, written for farmers, partners, and anyone breathing the haze.

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Corn stalks collected from northern Thailand's highland farms for industrial biochar production
·5 min read
Field impact

80 Tonnes of Corn Stalks Turned into Biochar

More than 80 tonnes of highland corn residues became industrial biochar instead of smoke, creating durable carbon storage and value for agricultural land.

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Biochar and young plant growth illustrating soil health and nutrient efficiency in Thailand
·7 min read
Soil series

Why Half of Your Fertilizer Never Feeds Your Crop

Why nutrient losses make fertilizer more expensive—and how biochar can help keep more nitrogen, phosphorus and other nutrients near crop roots.

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Farmers working across a flooded rice demonstration field in Nakhon Sawan, Thailand
·4 min read
Field trial

From Workshop to Farm: Rice Straw Biochar

A Nakhon Sawan pilot moves from farmer training to a one-rai field trial, with early gains in plant height and tiller development.

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Free-range chickens on the swept concrete floor of a farmyard in Southeast Asia
·5 min read
Applications

Biochar Beyond the Field

The same material that improves a paddy also cleans a pig-farm pond and dries a poultry shed. One tonne of biochar, three jobs.

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Aerial view of healthy green farmland in rows
·7 min read
Carbon markets

How the Data Center Boom Can Clean Thailand's Air

Thailand is drawing billions in AI investment. Here is how that same money could fund carbon removal, cleaner air, and healthier soil at home.

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Aerial view of wastewater treatment basins representing biochar heavy metal and wastewater remediation
·4 min read
Environmental chemistry

Biochar Chemistry for Heavy Metal Treatment

Surface area, pH, pyrolysis temperature, CEC and aromaticity determine how biochar binds lead, cadmium, copper and other contaminants.

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Close-up of black biochar granules, distinct from grilling charcoal
·6 min read
Explainer

Biochar Is Not Charcoal

Why the black carbon that rebuilds soil is not the charcoal on your grill, and why that difference decides everything for the climate.

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Crop residue burning in a field with smoke drifting across the land
·7 min read
Field note

PM2.5 Does Not Just Come From Cars

After the harvest, the fields burn. Where the haze really comes from, what it costs, and the alternative that turns smoke into stored carbon.

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Farmers transplanting rice seedlings by hand at the Nakhon Sawan trial field
·7 min read
On the farm

Biochar in Thai Rice Farming

What biochar does in a paddy, the honest methane nuance, the salt creeping under Isan, and why it still pays for the farmer.

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AgriSpark Hackathon finalists developing agricultural burning solutions for steep terrain
·4 min read
Innovation

Hack the Hills: Innovation to End Agricultural Burning

Eight finalist teams developed practical ways to collect steep-terrain biomass and turn crop residues into resources instead of smoke.

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KMUTT and Enable Earth sign an agreement to tackle PM2.5 through biochar
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Partnership

Enable Earth and KMUTT Join Forces to Tackle PM2.5

A three-year collaboration connects biochar innovation with cleaner air, agricultural residue management and rural development.

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