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Climate change Unveiled: The Urgent Fight for Our Planet

The Environmental Blog

The planet is experiencing significant and rapid changes due to increased greenhouse gas emissions, leading to devastating effects on ecosystems, weather patterns, and human health. Health Impacts Rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are having severe health impacts.

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

Critical Environment Technologies Canada Inc. Frank’s career in gas detection stretches back to 1982, and when he was first visited by a sales person from Alphasense in 2003, he was immediately impressed with the representative’s technical knowledge. “It These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health.

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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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Aerosol appraisal

Envirotec Magazine

The new study used satellite data from 2003 – 2020 to determine the effect of fuel regulations on pollution from cargo ships. Aerosols in the atmosphere are obviously a concern given their potential to be injurious to health. The study was led by the University of Maryland’s Tianle Yuan and appears in Science Advances.

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Study: People are moving to flood-prone areas, not away from them

Grist

In January 2003, Tropical Cyclone Delfina dropped heavy rains over Malawi and Mozambique, causing devastating flooding. He said there have been advances in satellites and other technologies that have made better data available. The floods lasted 47 days, killing 23 people and displacing some 400,000.

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Impossible Foods teams up with OSI to ramp up production in busy week for plant-based meat

AFN Sustainable Protein

The Impossible Burger, the first food ever featured at CES’ roster of game-changing technologies, won the show’s top prizes. He worked at Google from 2003-2012, overseeing more than $10 billion in sales in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, among other leadership roles. Since the launch of the 2.0

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Best known for its butter — and the Native American logo it retired last year — Land O’Lakes is also a 21st-century force in technology. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well.