Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The experiment was set up by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and colleagues over twenty years ago as part of the SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP). The first trees were planted in 2002, with nearly 100,000 planted in total over the following years.

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Logging Biodiversity Resilience Soil 147

The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Pakistan is considered one of the disaster-prone countries in Asia. Several other severe episodes of droughts were recorded in 1967–69, 1971, 1973–75, 1994, 1998–2002, and most recent 2009–15. These play role in the flooding equation because trees strengthen the soil and prevent soil erosion and absorb water efficiently.

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Climate change Global warming Soil Agriculture 195

ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many people are already familiar with Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and China as some of the leaders of geothermal development in Asia. However, they noticed that there was wet soil with faint traces of steam around the boarded area. The team inserted thermometers into the wet soil, finding that the temperatures exceeded 90°C.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Soil 105

Grist

JULY 24, 2019

In the early 20th century, Dutch elm disease, a fungus from Asia that is spread by elm bark beetles, killed 75 percent of native elms. We’ve toyed with basically everything,” said Yolanda Chen, associate professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. Land use, pollution, fire history—all factor into ecology.

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Agriculture Asia Climate change Medicine 78

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

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Soil Stormwater Education Medicine 28

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Hemlocks can sequester approximately 12 metric tons of carbon dioxide per two and a half acres, according to a 2002 study that compared the hemlock to other tree species. A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

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Carbon Climate change Cooling Soil 140

Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you took a cubic-metre sample of the soil here, around 90 per cent of the content would be water, with the rest made up of partially decayed vegetation and organic matter that contain vast amounts of carbon. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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