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VOCs landmark: Firm marks 20 years of mobile carbon filter rentals

Envirotec Magazine

Back in the summer, they celebrated 10 years of spent carbon reactivation at their Immingham facility, the site later being awarded a prestigious Green Apple environmental award as well as its ISO45001 accreditation for health & safety.

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Addressing biodiversity authentically and effectively

GreenBiz

We realized that we could estimate the health of the overall environment by using birds, as they are an indicator of biodiversity. We later expanded our bird conservation activity by establishing the Suntory Fund for Bird Conservation in 1989 to directly support organizations protecting birds both in Japan and overseas. Courtesy of.

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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

DeSmogBlog

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria

Grist

“The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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COVID-19 and climate change: A healthy dose of reality

Business Green

Still, consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world. For nearly two decades, health officials around the world have warned about the rise of infectious disease from a warming climate. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't; we'll likely never know for certain. Department of Defense.

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An enduring threat to water?

Envirotec Magazine

Increasing attention to the environmental and human health effects of PFAS is leading to the development of increasingly conservative (low) regulatory levels for PFAS in drinking water, soil, groundwater, sediments and surface waters4, 6-9. PFAS may then pose a risk of harm, depending on the site setting (i.e. Why a problem?

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Tofurky Trots offer alternative Thanksgiving races for vegetarians

AGreenLiving

Founded in 2003, it is based in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. The next year, Tofurky got a little more proper about the whole thing and invited Northwest VEG to be the race organizer,” Leeds said. “So So it was Tofurky’s event with Northwest VEG organizing.

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