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Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions. Peatlands are carbon sinks, no different to rainforests like the Amazon – and yet peat decimation is happening on British soil.
Greentown Labs
MAY 26, 2021
Bayer , headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a multinational life science company with core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. Sustainable development and inclusive growth are core elements of Bayer’s corporate strategy and vision: “health for all, hunger for none.” Learn more about them here. ###.
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Grist
DECEMBER 16, 2019
By the second day, the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and the county’s Air Pollution Control District had issued an air-quality warning, and local libraries and nonprofits urged residents to protect themselves from the harmful smoke and ash, offering free N95 respirator masks. A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 16, 2023
Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. 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.
Unsustainable
OCTOBER 20, 2019
How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. This was certainly true in 2011, when a bitter cold snap impacted four million people and caused losses of 1.5 As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.
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. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Pavement is degrading faster.
Better Ventures
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends.
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