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Circular solution for screenings?

Envirotec Magazine

Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Moreover, spent biochar can be used to enhance the quality of biosolids, an organic fertiliser that many treatment plants produce, and which is applied to soils where it sequesters carbon for centuries.

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Four Oil and Gas Spills that are Worse than we Thought

Green Market Oracle

Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak. At the time some had hoped that the spill would be a catalyst for change, instead we have come to realize that there may be even more devastating methane leaks that have not been reported.

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Don’t Look Down

Grist

Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground. Sean McDermott / Grist.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. cropland and help the U.S.

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Regrow partnership with food giants aims to scale regenerative agriculture

Business Green

The New Hampshire-based company was founded in 2016 and has gone through a few acquisitions (FluroSat and Dagan) over that time to become a staple partner for big consumer food players such as General Mills and Kellogg Co. Finally, Regrow will ground-truth these claims with field soil carbon samples to calibrate the models. "It

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Largest Ever Arctic Oil Spill and Climate Feedback Loops

Green Market Oracle

Melting permafrost Warming Arctic temperatures are releasing carbon and methane , the two most serious GHGs. For years scientists have observed massive quantities of methane emanating from melting ice on the sea floor in the Arctic. More fires Arctic warming is fueling a feedback loop that increasing fires and exacerbating warming.

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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

In 2016, the Anthropocene Working Group confirmed that the Anthropocene is different from the Holocene, and it began in the year 1950 with the Great Acceleration. Permafrost and methane hydrates – Permafrost is ground soil or rock that contains ice or frozen organic material that has remained at or below 0C for at least two years.