Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. Warmer air can suck moisture out of the soil, amplifying droughts.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

David Peters’s nightmare began on a Monday in the spring of 2016, just before the end of the work day. But the city and the state environmental agency hadn’t thought much of it, since the contamination, at a combined 200 parts per trillion, or ppt, was not thought to be at a level that was harmful to human health.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 17, 2022

Another challenge of our research is the integrated use of optical constellation satellite and SAR data for monitoring soil-vegetation productivity of agricultural land area. We developed a method to map kelp canopy from PlanetScope imagery and created annual kelp maps between 2016-2021. Sustainable Agriculture. “The

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

"There’s a lot of work to be done to provide affordable nutrition … and allow those who are seeking to grow organic, or use any tech enabled process that might be better for soil health, better for nutrition, to at least get started," he said. million certified organic acres, an increase of 9 percent over 2016.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

When properly designed and operated, an ecosan system provides a hygienically safe method of converting waste into nutrients that can be returned to soil. This method of treating waste offers numerous benefits that help to improve the health and value of both people and their surrounding environment.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

There are also increasing concerns about the effects of agriculture on soil health, with detrimental effects including erosion, pollution (nutrients and pesticides), compaction, desertification and salinisation. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

A survey of 600 farmers carried out by the pollster on behalf of Swiss biotechnology giant Syngenta in February found 72 per cent were worried about the impact of climate change on their crop yields, animal health, and ability to do business. warming trajectory.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. According to a 2016 study by public health, nutrition and environmental experts, replacing beef with beans in the American diet would free up 42 percent of U.S.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 3, 2024

Beyond offering urban residents opportunities to reconnect with nature and assert control over their food systems, urban and peri-urban agriculture can also help to mitigate some of the negative health and environmental impacts associated with urban development. Source: Mulya et al. 2023, optimized from Opitz et al. Source: Mulya et al.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Leaded gasoline was used to improve engine performance, but concerns over its health effects began following the death of five workers at a Standard Oil refinery. It can contaminate the air, degrade soil quality and pollute water, among other effects. .” Dozens of other workers were also hospitalized for convulsions.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” Many variables influence permafrost’s stability, like how cold it is, how deep it runs, and the quantity of soil moisture, or its “ice richness.” Many of the valley’s spruce trees lean drunkenly.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Dubbed EA2025 , the new strategy sets out how the agency plans to promote health, equity and environmental enhancement, while delivering on its core goals to create more climate resilient places, improve air, soil, and water quality, and deliver on its target of net zero emissions by 2030. This year has been significant in many ways.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2022

Radiological analysis of sludge samples taken from these boots revealed radium levels roughly 15 times EPA levels for soil at Superfund sites. It is work like this that has Massachusetts-based nuclear forensics scientist Dr. Marco Kaltofen deeply concerned about worker health risks. Credit: Marco Kaltofen. Raising Red Flags.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. Between 2008 and 2016, around 4,700 indigenous Wayuú children died due to a lack of food and water.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

Extensive research has been done on the co-benefits of climate policy, including: Improved human health (with reduced air pollution and meat consumption lessening disease burdens and increasing physical activity). Source: Alfredsson and Karlsson 2016. where population density is lower). Energy Innovation. Sampedro, J., Smith, S.J.,

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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. In 2016, it caused a state of emergency in the central and southern regions of the country. In Vietnam, coffee production grew by nearly 100 fold between 1986 and 2016. million tons of beans.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

The problem is too complex for straightforward answers: Its outcome relies on rainfall, ocean temperature, soil health, and crop growth rates. Dredged soil from much of that construction was piled on the edges of waterways, forming piles known as spoil banks, or spoil levees, which impede the natural flow of water.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

Farmers are adopting regenerative practices on the ground that keep the soil healthy over longer periods of time. Nematodes are microscopic parasites that lurk in the soil to feed on crop roots and are responsible for global damages totaling $150 billion every year since they’re tough to catch. Of course you have.

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Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

And they’re the pollinators and soil manufacturers. There’s a World Economic Forum risk report from 2016. That doesn’t happen any more. People might think ‘so what – fewer creepy-crawlies is a good thing. But it’s the base of the food chain, that everything else depends on. If we can’t live with insects, we’re in serious trouble.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s going be increasingly difficult to grow food with water scarcity, soil depletion, and volatile climates and warming climates. At Acre, we’re a mission-driven fund that’s focused on changing the food system around health, transparency, and sustainability and climate change. It’s about their health.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s going be increasingly difficult to grow food with water scarcity, soil depletion, and volatile climates and warming climates. At Acre, we’re a mission-driven fund that’s focused on changing the food system around health, transparency, and sustainability and climate change. It’s about their health.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

In the latter part of 2016, Ethan Steinberg and two of his friends planned a driving tour across the United States to interview farmers. According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. This was no esoteric inquiry.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2021

Soil scientists strongly disagree about whether soil carbon sequestration (SCS) can effectively help to decarbonize the atmosphere. Our recently published article in Nature Sustainability outlines our concerns that this conflicting messaging undermines efforts to restore soils to safeguard human and environmental well-being.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

. “There’s a lot of work to be done to provide affordable nutrition … and allow those who are seeking to grow organic, or use any tech enabled process that might be better for soil health, better for nutrition, to at least get started,” he said. million certified organic acres, an increase of 9 percent over 2016.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 30, 2019

Puris’ president Tyler Lorenzen touched on the proceeds saying it would go towards “more than a pea protein facility” but was a move that would power regenerative agriculture, as cover crops such as peas give protection against soil erosion. Find out more from our team here.*). This is the future of food.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

As part of its “pigs are more climate-friendly than you think” campaign, Danish Crown quoted a study from Aarhus University, claiming that one kilo of Danish pork produced only 2.8kg of carbon dioxide-equivalent in 2016, down from 3.8kg eight years before. Vion, NAMI and ELV did not respond to DeSmog’s requests to comment on this story.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Emitting carbon pollution causes local air pollution and health costs plus the economic damages from storms, crop-loss, forest fires, rising sea-levels, ocean acidification, spread of disease and other issues. The failed 2016 revenue neutral carbon tax , Initiative 732 , was a pure pricing mechanism. The change is required by law.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

The majority of these bags had been ripped open, allowing small pieces of plastic to escape, and in some cases plastic waste been covered in soil with more plastic dumped on top, it added. UK waste exports to Turkey have surged from 12,000 tonnes to 210,000 tonnes a year between 2016 and 2020, according to government figures.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. She began her political career in 2016 with Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

In 2016, Houston-based Cheniere Energy opened the first LNG export terminal in the continental United States. For context, a gram of soil anywhere on earth may contain between 1 and 5 picocuries of either isotope.) Questions to European Union spokespeople specializing in climate change and also public health also have gone unanswered.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Below you will find several sustainable home products that can bring long-term cost savings and help preserve our resources and planet health. WaterSense offers two types of water-efficient irrigation controllers: weather-based and soil moisture-based. Energy and Water Efficient Sustainable Home Products.

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