Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

” The biopolymers are combined with graphene, a variant of carbon (or allotrope , to be precise) whose modern rediscovery and isolation at the University of Manchester in 2004 led to a Nobel Prize. We all know how pressing the climate crisis is, and plastic pollution is a huge problem, particularly in our ocean environments.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

As co-founder of the community group Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living, Mayfield has spent years fighting to protect her majority Black and low-income city from the pollution spewed by the nearby Covanta waste-to-energy facility — the country’s largest waste incinerator.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix. The reasoning is that once wet, the land will stop losing carbon and the sinking will come to a halt. Nor is the flooding of delta islands unprecedented.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Some rough estimates put the entire Kampala Peninsula's peatland carbon storage at upwards of 6.5 million tonnes, making it an area of growing interest to the burgeoning global carbon credit market, as well as the Indonesian government, which has its sights set on a 2060 net zero target.

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