Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. And replacing one grass with another is labor-intensive; a 2004 report by the University of Georgia said it would take farmers who made the switch about three years to break even.

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 141

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Between 2004 and 2017, 43 million hectares of tropical forest were lost – an area roughly the size of Morocco (WWF). Up to now, however, it has been unclear whether this is best achieved through allowing forests to restore themselves naturally (using dormant seeds in the soil) or through active replanting.

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Logging Biodiversity Resilience Soil 147

Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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Health Climate change Soil South America 138

Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. When Jones Tract, a delta island, flooded in 2004, the damage cost $90 million to fix.

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Soil Methane Carbon Organic 86

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Established in 2004, GBI has since become a leader in advancing green building practices and developing a range of resources for those interested in sustainable building. The organization is committed to creating a future where buildings are designed and operated with resource efficiency and occupant health in mind.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 525

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. While it’s true that untreated raw milk is unsafe to drink, as a 2004 Kenyan government report found, Kenyan buyers overwhelmingly knew to boil their milk first, so the risk of disease spread was very low.

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