ScienceDaily (Jan. 14, 2010) — Scientists are reporting that "biochar" -- a material that the Amazonian Indians used to enhance soil fertility centuries ago -- has potential in the modern world to help slow global climate change.

Promoters of Biochar should ally with fishermen and other groups concerned about ocean dead zones caused by nitrogen runoff.

Virgin Group's billionaire creator Richard Branson has tapped local solar industry entrepreneur Jigar Shah to head up a new worldwide battle against carbon emissions.

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Reducing non-CO2 climate change agents such as black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production, can forestall fast approaching abrupt climate changes, according to Nobel Laureate Dr.

While most of us were playing at the beach or on the sports field during summer, Michigan Technological University undergraduate Amanda Taylor was hard at work, far from home, on research that could revolutionize fuel used to power nuclear reactors.