Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. In areas dominated by the palm-oil industry, deforestation has plummeted. Palm oil is a dirty word for many environmentalists. These days, Indonesia is looking like one of those bright spots.

Energy Monitor 135

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Asia 135

Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

In order to ensure this growth is done in a sustainable manner, climatetech innovation in the agtech space must be scaled and integrated into the world’s largest organizations—like Bayer—that are leading this growth. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth.

Startups 92

Startups Incubators Incubators North America 92

Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs , where he explicitly named climate risk as a “defining factor in companies’ long-term prospects,” was followed by an avalanche of climate commitments across industries throughout the year (see Microsoft , Shell , Unilever , and on ). Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011.

Building Energy Monitoring 59

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 59

Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. Enforcing the use of masks requires monitoring by the state, for example.

Soil 98

Soil Health Pollution Climate change 98

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. It allocates actions to stakeholders including the EA, local authorities and organic processors. And not all rivers carry the same load of microplastics.

Microplastics 222

Microplastics Plastics Soil Waste 222

Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. They think that building a levee is going to protect them from rising seawater.

Energy Monitor 131

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 131

Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Sometimes the dynamics of this saturation are so complex and inscrutable that our strides unsettle sand that is several meters away, so that with each step we see little bursts of light up ahead of us, wherever the water is wicking through the grains. All those years, they’d been building a constituency. Ingetje Tadros / Getty images.

Fossil fuels 116

Fossil fuels Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 116