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Fish eDNA project highlights promise of environmental survey work at offshore wind farms

Envirotec Magazine

A new report validates the use of fish environmental DNA (eDNA) survey methods, declaring that they could transform the way fish ecology surveys are conducted for offshore wind farm developments. Samples were analysed for environmental DNA using fish, vertebrate (fish, mammals and birds) and invertebrate assays.

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Ten market challenges with scaling renewables identified by new report

Envirotec Magazine

The report, and accompanying survey, seems to find that the current pace of renewable deployments is nowhere near sufficient to achieve Paris Agreement levels of ambition with limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C KPMG will share this report at the COP28 events in Dubai in early December. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Odour complaints and how to handle them

Envirotec Magazine

Odour sampling and surveying is the first step to getting on top of the problem. Odour sampling and surveying. Sometimes, investigating an odour complaint can take a lot of time and resources. Your first step is to conduct odour sampling and surveys. All these things can take up a lot of time and money. Investigate.

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Can better monitoring and testing help to tackle nitrogen pollution?

Envirotec Magazine

This is because stable isotope analysis of nitrates requires dissolved nitrate samples to be converted to N 2 O prior to analysis, as it is not possible to analyse nitrate directly using isotope-ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS). The applications of stable isotope analysis for nitrate analysis are manifold. Mass spectrometry system.

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Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration

GreenBiz

Like many other food companies, it’s dedicating resources to promoting regenerative agricultural practices among the farmers and seeking ways that farms can profit from their efforts to sequester carbon dioxide. The footprint of its sustainability activities, detailed in its latest sustainability report published in early June, is extensive.

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Activists Launch Their Own Investigation of  Mud Spill Near Pennsylvania LNG Pipeline  

DeSmogBlog

On February 22, the DEP turned samples of the material over to Sunoco Pipeline, L.P. The DEP was so quick to give samples to Sunoco for testing, instead of sending them to an independent lab, that it made residents wary, Digiulio said. “We SPLP) for testing. The group needs about $8,000 for the test.

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‘This Needs to Be Fixed’: Nuclear Expert Calls Radioactivity Levels Found Outside Ohio Oilfield Waste Facility ‘Excessive’

DeSmogBlog

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. The samples analyzed by Eberline also showed elevated levels of radioactive forms of lead and thorium.

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