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Recent approaches and advancement in biochar-based environmental sustainability: Is biochar fulfilling the sustainable development goals?

Ashmita Patro, Saurabh Dwivedi, Anjali Thakur, Prafulla Kumar Sahoo, Jayanta Kumar Biswas

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Review in iScience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ashmita PatroAcademy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
Saurabh DwivediAcademy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad 201002, India.
Anjali ThakurDepartment of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, V.P.O. Ghudda, Bathinda 151401, Punjab, India.
Prafulla Kumar SahooDepartment of Environmental Science and Technology, Central University of Punjab, V.P.O. Ghudda, Bathinda 151401, Punjab, India.
Jayanta Kumar BiswasDepartment of Ecological Studies and International Centre for Ecological Engineering, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia 741235, West Bengal, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review highlights the application of biochar (BC) for attaining different SDGs (SDG 6: clean water and sanitation, SDG 7: affordable and clean energy, SDG 13: climate action, and SDG 15: life on land). These goals coincide with the various existing environmental problems including wastewater treatment, soil amendment, greenhouse gas remediation, and bioenergy generation. So, the review encompasses the various mechanisms involved in the BC-assisted treatment and reclamation of water, pollutant immobilization and enhancing soil properties, reduction of greenhouse gas emission during the wastewater treatment process and soil amendment mechanisms, bioenergy generation through various electrode material, biodiesel production, and many more. The review also explains the various drawbacks and limitations of BC application to the available environmental issues. Conclusively, it was apprehended that BC is an appropriate material for several environmental applications. More research interventions are further required to analyze the applicability of different BC materials for attaining other available SDGs.

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Environmental managementSoil biologySoil chemistrySoil science

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PMID39310752
PMCPMC11416529

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