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Geo-data firm supports complex environmental clean-up project

Envirotec Magazine

A consortium of COWI A/S, RAMBOLL A/S and Geosyntec, contracted by the Region of Southern Denmark to decontaminate the site, engaged Fugro to install 800 injection wells over a total area of 2000 m² using specialist direct push technology, which is lighter and safer than conventional drill technology.

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Understanding Soil Carbon Science To Identify Strategies For Climate Mitigation And Adaptation

Energy Innovation

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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Perseverance touches down on the red planet

Envirotec Magazine

There is no one to fix the instrumentation if something goes wrong,” says Maria Genzer, Head of Planetary Research and Space Technology Group at FMI. When landing, the Perseverance and Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity will operate around 2000 km from each other. Meteorological observation network on another planet.

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Geothermal well drilled for energy storage of waste incineration plant in Finland

ThinkGeoEnergy

A 2000-meter geothermal well was drilled for the use of the Lounavoima waste incineration plant in the town of Salo, Finland. A pump building with the technology for deep heat storage had also been built over the summer, with heat pumps to be installed this autumn. The objective is for deep heat storage to be operational by the winter.

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Agriculture, Innovation, & Sustainability • 11/10/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Join WCS for a virtual event panel discussion on agriculture and ways to increase adoption of sustainable practices, from creating new technologies to educating local farmers and providing funding to those making big impacts. November 10, 2022. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST. Virtual Panel. Register Here. General ticket: $15. No promo codes needed.

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Sculptural roof tops eco-minded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts expansion

AGreenLiving

In addition to a stormwater management plan, the eco-minded design includes adaptive reuse of the existing buildings’ most carbon-intensive elements, integration of native species into 11 acres of new landscape and the preservation of 90% of existing soils.

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Revealed: A U.S. President Was First Informed of CO2’s Impact 59 Years Ago This Month 

DeSmogBlog

Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, the January 13, 1965, memo was sent by Johnson’s special assistant for science and technology, Donald Hornig. He specifically referred to the “ magnitude of the pollution problem ,” and the “urgency of increased attention to prevention and abatement of pollution of our soils, air and waters.”