{"id":15977,"date":"2012-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20120713-01n"},"modified":"2012-07-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T22:00:00","slug":"biochar-explored-to-remediate-soil-contaminated-by-oil-spills-and-gas-leaks-in-canadas-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biochar-explored-to-remediate-soil-contaminated-by-oil-spills-and-gas-leaks-in-canadas-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochar Explored to Remediate Soil Contaminated by Oil Spills and Gas Leaks in Canada\u2019s North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>A team of researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and Yukon College are working with industry in Canada\u2019s North to develop biochar for remediation of soil contaminated by oil spills and gas leaks.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Biochar is a type of charcoal that results from heating biological ingredients, such as wood and bone, in a low- or no-oxygen environment \u2013 a process known as pyrolysis. In southern climates, biochar has proven environmental benefits when added to soil, including enhanced soil fertility, improved plant growth, and degradation of contaminants.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innovations-report.de\/html\/berichte\/umwelt_naturschutz\/biochar_explored_remediate_soil_contaminated_oil_198935.html\" >www.innovations-report.de\/html\/berichte\/umwelt_naturschutz\/biochar_explored_remediate_soil_contaminated_oil_198935.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: soil restoration costs, Canadian Light Source synchrotron, cow bones<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>A team of researchers from the University of Saskatchewan and Yukon College are working with industry in Canada&rsquo;s North to develop biochar for remediation of<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[3673,3672,3674,3670,3671,3675],"class_list":["post-15977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-federated-cooperatives-limited","supplier-natural-sciences-and-engineering-research-council-of-canada-nserc","supplier-nunatta-environmental","supplier-university-of-saskatchewan","supplier-yukon-college","supplier-zakus-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15977"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}