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Once-Lowly Charcoal Emerges as 'Major Tool' for Curbing Carbon

[image error]Charcoal is taking root on the farm.

Simmered out of eucalyptus, charcoal is being hoed into the degraded soils of former forests in western Kenya. Roasted out of chicken manure, it is spurring the growth of malting barley in Australia. And in Iowa, researchers are plowing charcoal into corn rows, hoping to limit the tons of fertilizer that saturate the state's fields each year.

At these farms and more, scientists are probing...