1. In the black-earth regions, however, the great majority remained close to the breadline.

2. Their content was poor in precious artifacts, but rich in black earth and ashes, mixed with burnt bovine bones.

3. On this legendary island in the Cyclades, all your senses seem magnified, a product of its many contrasts: black earth against whitewashed homes clinging to the cliff-side, or wild volcanic sculptures against sleek Cycladic lines

4. While he was exiled in the city of Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, his work, as Joseph Brodsky wrote, developed into "a poetry of high velocity and exposed nerves, becoming more a song than ever before, not a Bardlike but a birdlike song something like a goldfinch tremolo."

5. Perhaps the most striking example of Biochar in action is the rich soil known as “terra preta” (black earth) in the Amazon basin, where over a thousand years ago natives burned jungle plants and branches in slow smoldering piles and combined the charcoaled remains with manure to enrich nutrient-deficient clay soil.