Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

“Most of the research that’s been done on MPs reports the number of particles in terms of the unit adopted for the sample type, ranging from volume in the case of water, to mass when the analysis involves soil and sediment, and individuals for biota. Plastic production and pollution affect human health and fuel greenhouse gas emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Between 2004 and 2017, 43 million hectares of tropical forest were lost – an area roughly the size of Morocco (WWF). Up to now, however, it has been unclear whether this is best achieved through allowing forests to restore themselves naturally (using dormant seeds in the soil) or through active replanting.

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

From 2007 to 2017, land-based ecosystems like the vast boreal forests of Canada and the Amazon rainforest removed roughly a third of anthropogenic carbon emissions from the atmosphere. A new study from a research team at the University of Michigan found that even a relatively small temperature increase of 1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

An example of a pit latrine, where human waste is deposited in the soil where nature is able to safely sanitise it (image credit: Dr Simon Willcock, Bangor University). This includes pit latrine waste that gradually filters through the soil — a natural process that cleans it before it reaches groundwater.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

The mortality rate has been estimated at 30 to 60 percent , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, and it’s a particular risk in health care settings where infections can easily spread, such as hospitals and nursing homes. auris was first spreading in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2021

Regenerative agriculture puts a greater focus on soil health and quality, promoting biodiversity and more plant cover on fields throughout the year, according to McCain, which said it plans to use potatoes grown to these standards in its Superfries, Bistro fries, Potato Patties, Smiles, Tasti Taters and Homefries brands.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2022

Drought Monitor using data on soil moisture, streamflow, and precipitation to categorize droughts by their severity. Another flash drought hit Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota in the spring of 2017, leading to more than $2.6 As the air warms, it can lead to more evaporation and dry out the soil. Jeffrey Basara.

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Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

billion acres of soil around the world have gotten saltier, an area roughly the size of the entire United States, and it’s stressing out plants. Road salt made up 44 percent of the country’s salt consumption from 2013 to 2017, the study says. Researchers in Maryland and four other states found that 2.5

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 10, 2021

We’re thrilled to announce that Planet has signed a new, three-year, non-exclusive contract with Farmers Edge, a valued customer since 2017. This work can foster regenerative agriculture practices at scale, and help users achieve ambitious sustainability goals. .

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Better Cotton has pledged to halve the overall emissions per tonne of cotton produced under the initiative by 2030, against a 2017 baseline, in a bid to enhance the environmental credentials of cotton that carries its label.

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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. This increased access to capital could help scale the market.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. and how quickly they are rising.

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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.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

Dubbed 'Together Towards ZERO and Beyond', the firm's new strategy marks an "evolution" of its previous programme launched five years ago in 2017, according to Carlsberg CEO Cees ‘t Hart. It also plans to implement circular packaging solutions, which it described as "critical" to reducing its CO2.

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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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Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is studying samples of soil and ice extracted from the north Alaskan coast in 2018. In the two long weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, research into our warming climate has been put on hold. Emily Bristol takes soil samples off the coast of Alaska. Bristol is one of the lucky ones.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

The berry grows best in boggy, water-soaked soil that can't be used for many other crops. The water in natural land supports the cranberry bog and in return, the cranberry bog enriches the soil that supports outside land.". In 2017 , Wisconsin produced 5.4 And every one acre of cranberry bog requires 5.5

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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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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Health 98

GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

"Too many Americans live without any affordable means of cleanly disposing of the waste from their toilets, and must live with the resulting filth," writes Catherine Coleman Flowers, an environmental health advocate, in her book "Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret," published by The New Press in November.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

hectares in 2017 to 65,442.41 In addition, there is the need to continue working with Planet images in other future projects led by PRIAS such as evaluating the feasibility of the soil in planting crops, monitoring of crop yield, health analysis of crops, and disease monitoring,” said Vargas. . hectares in 2019.

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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. This enables us to avoid fundamentally changing our lifestyles and shift to a truly sustainable economy.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s a chemical that’s been found in water, soil, and food all over the planet: PFAS. Exposure studies have linked some forms of PFAS to thyroid disease and some cancers , but there’s very little health research on most of them. They secured a grant and got to work.

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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. This enables us to avoid fundamentally changing our lifestyles and shift to a truly sustainable economy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

To signal our ambition, we've set ourselves a challenging target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of Better Cotton produced by 50 per cent by 2030 (from a 2017 baseline). We're also aware that farming communities are already being hit by the effects of higher temperatures and more erratic weather patterns.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Related: Indonesian eco village features rammed earth domes and ocean views In 2017, a village organization called the Community Disaster Management Group (CDMG) was formed to create a plan for the village that would improve disaster response. At the initial board meeting, the members elected Patris Mana to become chairman.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In one essay, Fazeela Mubarak, a conservation volunteer in Kenya, writes about an ad hoc response to droughts in March 2017, which involved a frantic struggle to restore water and food supplies to animals in the region. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. Drought in Kenya.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In one essay, Fazeela Mubarak, a conservation volunteer in Kenya, writes about an ad hoc response to droughts in March 2017, which involved a frantic struggle to restore water and food supplies to animals in the region. In that sense it is intended to fill a gap in the market for books on climate change. Drought in Kenya.

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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.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. These emissions, together with the biodiversity damages caused by fertilizer runoff, have spurred a race to commercialize low-impact alternatives.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

And with 80 per cent of the world's population facing a threat to their water security , trees play a very significant role in stemming desertification and preventing soil erosion. But the impacts run deeper: 75 per cent of the world's accessible fresh water arises from forested watersheds. So what can we do?

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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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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The plant-based meat and dairy market is expected to balloon over the years to come, as consumers increasingly seek to reduce the environmental impact of their diet while tapping the health benefits related to reducing meat consumption. On the one hand, people are at home, preparing many more meals, and starting to experiment more.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Still, UN evidence shows the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821 million in 2017 — one in every nine people — according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018. One report by Deutsche Bank sees the earth’s population peaking at 8.7 Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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