A planned California hydrogen facility will offer an important test of a technology that researchers say may be critical for cleaning up the atmosphere. A startup plans to build a new type of ...

A chipper shreds a Fresno County orchard to make room for a recharge project. (photo: Department of Water Resources) With its ban on open agricultural burning, California has few options left for the ...

Those millions of tons of plastic sheeting and drip irrigation lines that are pulled out of Salinas Valley agriculture fields each year do not all go to waste anymore. Thanks to a facility at the ...

A new study reports a promising approach to transform agricultural and industrial waste into high-performance porous carbon materials that could help improve soil and water conservation while ...

May 14, 2019 — When we pick up a piece of fruit, bar of chocolate or package of flour, we don’t often think of the massive amounts of agricultural waste — the stems, leaves, seed pods and more — that ...

Researchers have developed a new class of sustainable energy storage materials by transforming agricultural waste into high-performance biochar composites that can store and release heat efficiently.

In Guadeloupe, a French-speaking Caribbean island whose recent history has been marked by a chlordecone pollution scandal, agricultural waste management is a major challenge. Chlordecone is a toxic ...