Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2021

Drought conditions include below-normal precipitation and snowpack accumulation, very dry soil and higher-than-normal temperatures. Meltwater from the snowpack often didn’t reach reservoirs in California this year because it was absorbed by drought-parched soil and streams, leaving reservoirs at low levels.

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Energy Monitor Hydropower Soil Energy 74

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

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. Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Patents Waste Waste Europe 130

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater.

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Ozone Soil Health Technology 130

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

While traditional leak detection techniques and instruments are less suitable for surveying large stretches of large-diameter pipes in rural terrain, Utilis’ technology is agnostic to pipe size or material, identifying leaks via soil moisture created by potable water mixing with the surrounding earth.

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Africa Technology Patents Soil 246

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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Since then, the fruit has thrived in the state, thanks to its favorable climate and soil profile. Between 1980 and 2016, an average of 1,100 chill hours was recorded in central Georgia. However, chill hours dropped to about 600 in 2016 and 400 in 2017. Peaches were first introduced in Georgia by a Franciscan monk in 1751.

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Global warming Soil Climate change Agriculture 36

Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The report’s findings are particularly significant this year because countries are set to conduct the first-ever “global stocktake” since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016. Given the low likelihood that warming will be contained to 1.5 degrees, the report emphasized the need for techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Global warming Climate change Carbon COP 136

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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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology Solar Energy Monitor 147

GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

It set ambitious targets for renewables, decarbonization and gender diversity in its management, and in 2016 named Isabelle Kocher its CEO, the first woman to lead a blue-chip French company. energy storage acquisition to date, bought in 2016 — was primarily focused on small behind-the-meter installations. Photo: Engie).

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North America Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

The construction industry is seeking to brush off its reputation as England's biggest producer of waste by promoting refurbishment over demolition, cutting the amount of soil that ends up in landfill, and designing buildings with 'end of life' in mind.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. These illnesses will “continue to tax our public health and medical care systems for years to come,” experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, wrote in a 2016 analysis. between 2016 and 2020. Valley fever Carried by soil containing the fungus Coccidioides.

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Health Climate change Soil South America 141

Business Green

APRIL 4, 2021

The Co-op halved its greenhouse gas emissions between 2006 and 2016, and has since adopted science-based climate goals in line with limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5C, including targets to reduce its emissions by a further 50 per cent and reduce its supply chain emissions by 11 per cent by 2025.

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Retail Soil Biodiversity Agriculture 101

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.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Education 106

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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Sustainability Organic Resilience Agriculture 522

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. Ecological sanitation, or ecosan, is an approach to sanitation that aims to safely reuse human waste.

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Waste Waste Agriculture Sustainability 200

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

He joined when Opower had about 30 employees, then served as chief marketing officer as the company went public in 2014 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Sachse’s appointment as CEO follows his experience at energy efficiency company Opower. cleantech startup.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

In a break-down of all of the UK's production-based emissions - foreign and domestic - between 1990 and 2016 the report reveals that electricity and waste have made the most headway. The UK's carbon footprint is shrinking, but not as drastically as some figures suggest, a new report has warned.

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Carbon Climate change Soil Africa 68

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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Soil Methane Climate change Government 138

Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

These extremes elevate the risk of dangerous flash floods, soil erosion, and the destruction of crops. The trend is particularly pronounced in the Northeast and Midwest, where the rainiest days became up to 55 percent wetter between 1958 and 2016. has seen widespread increases in rainfall intensity since the 1970s.

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Climate change Stormwater Soil Organic 74

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate.

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Carbon-neutral Agriculture Climate change Retail 98

Green Living Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Isaac Smith/The Southern, via AP) First off, the number of certified organic farms in the United States increased 11 percent in 2016 to 14,217 from the previous year. David Knop checks his organic newly-planted blackberry rows for moisture in Steeleville, Ill. That’s according to the latest available data from the.

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Organic Soil Sustainability 40

Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

The firm, which has committed to reducing the carbon intensity of its operations by at least 50 per cent by 2030 from a 2016 baseline, said its updated sustainability strategy was designed to place the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at the core of its Covid-19 recovery plans. warming trajectory.

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Climate change Biodiversity Biotechnology Agriculture 91

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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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 91

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 in May 2016, days before the legislative aide called Peters, the U.S. The city’s goal since 2016 has been to get PFAS contamination in its drinking water supply to “non-detect,” or as close to zero ppt as possible.

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Health Medicine Government Patents 108

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

An approach to use them also exists under Article 6 of the 2016 Paris Agreement. Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: Perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016). European Commission [link] (2016). Climatic Change 137 , 625–637 (2016).

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has this week published its fourth annual report on its progress against the objectives set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, analysing its performance against 50 natural capital indicators spanning air, water, waste, biodiversity, and soil. per cent between 2011 and 2016.

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Waste Waste Biodiversity Pollution 39

Grist

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Consider the anthrax outbreak in remote Siberia in 2016. Scientists suspect that the bacteria came from the carcass of a reindeer, buried for decades in permafrost, that resurfaced as the frozen soil thawed. I’m sorry to inform you that diseases can come back from the dead.

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Global warming Climate change Soil Carbon 73

Business Green

JULY 8, 2022

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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Agriculture Methane Soil North America 36

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It can contaminate the air, degrade soil quality and pollute water, among other effects. In 2016, North Korea, Myanmar and Afghanistan stopped selling leaded gasoline, leaving only a few countries (including Iraq, Yemen and Algeria) still producing the gasoline. Those affected by lead are at risk of heart disease, cancer and stroke.

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Fossil fuels Health Pollution Soil 28

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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Climate change Soil Agriculture Construction 40

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

The soil quality is now really bad, with all of the coal dust… I used to collect plants from the forest but the coal mines are making the plants of the forest unhealthy… We Shor people respected nature, we took what it could provide and protected it. This is the first year that there are no berries on the fruit bushes,” she says.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 95

Green Market Oracle

APRIL 20, 2020

Ohio fracking well Another epic spill that has turned out to be worse than originally thought is the 2016 Porter Ranch methane leak. Frequent spills have contributed to the controversy surrounding the Keystone XL and other pipelines.

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Methane Energy Monitor Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring 52

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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Resilience Climate change Soil Carbon 67

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 29, 2020

Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate.

Carbon-neutral 52

Carbon-neutral Agriculture Climate change Retail 52

Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition. Usually, they're more excited about this because we replace the limestone they're using to de-acidify their soil and restore nutrients with something that can do a better job.

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Agriculture Carbon Startups Soil 36

Grist

JULY 27, 2023

In 2016, hospitals in New York identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. Read more here. Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013.

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Health Climate change Europe Global warming 87

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

The soil quality is now really bad, with all of the coal dust… I used to collect plants from the forest but the coal mines are making the plants of the forest unhealthy… We Shor people respected nature, we took what it could provide and protected it. This is the first year that there are no berries on the fruit bushes,” she says.

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Europe Climate change Logging Soil 84