DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

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.

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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.” 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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Sustainability Consulting

MAY 19, 2023

Garrett Wymore and Caroline Buck created their company Petaluma in 2019 after “struggling to find dog nutrition that equally prioritized their pets and the planet.” ( Forbes ) As one of the industry’s pioneers, they aim to set a new standard for pet food, one that considers the planet as a stakeholder.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 1, 2023

EPA estimates that, in 2019, about 96% of households’ wasted food ended up in landfills, combustion facilities, or down the drain to the sewer system. To make matters worse, when food rots in a landfill, it produces huge amounts of methane — a greenhouse gas at least 28 times as potent as carbon dioxide. How amazing is this?!

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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. DWR measures the CO2 and methane emissions from the wetlands it created on Sherman Island.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 20, 2021

’s annual methane emissions in 2019, diverting waste into pottery — or just about anything else — could help make a dent in emissions. The company developed the material as a soil amendment, material additive, filter and colorant, and is devising other uses. Each planter comes with DEN sustainable soil.

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Grist

AUGUST 2, 2019

But perhaps the most important way 2019’s Arctic fire season has been weird is the intensity of the blazes and their associated carbon emissions. Globally, June 2019 was the hottest June on record. Satellite image of a wildfire in the Mirninsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia on July 22, 2019. Pierre Markuse.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

When they form new bodies of water, they contribute to the thawing of frozen permafrost, which is a natural reservoir for methane and carbon dioxide. These beavers carry dead trees and shrubs to create dams, resulting in new lakes that flood the permafrost soil and release methane.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Next, let’s consider the company Patagonia as an example.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 9, 2020

The unprecedented Arctic heatwaves that we saw in 2019 are part of a warming trend that is disproportionately affecting the far north. Melting permafrost Warming Arctic temperatures are releasing carbon and methane , the two most serious GHGs. In 2019 we saw a dramatic increase in Arctic fires. to 7.20 °F).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In 2019, agriculture accounted for nine per cent of UK emissions. A focus on increasing carbon storage in soil and soil health in general - by adopting nature friendly farming practices such as reduced cultivation and cover cropping - will also improve his farm business' bottom line and resilience in the next 5-10 years.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

For instance, four waves of surveys, from 2014 to 2019 by Glocalities , compiled the answers from 189,996 respondents. In 2019, this figure rose to 77%. To this day, BP has still not recovered in value and has been branded a dirty oil company soiled in shame. Next, let’s consider the company Patagonia as an example.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

While carbon dioxide (CO2) tends to be the most commonly discussed and recognized GHG, there are numerous other greenhouse gasses including methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and hydrofluorocarbons. The three major greenhouse gases are carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Methane (CH4).

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. The sources cited by Garson are a 2019 article in the New York on-line news service vox.com, and a 2014 feature on the website Ecowatch. REFERENCES.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

BASF’s wine tasting is just one example of many such pandemic-style lobbying efforts by the European agriculture industry since the EU has attempted to pass sweeping new policies to combat climate change through measures included in its “Green Deal,” first presented in December 2019. These groups spent at least a combined €45.9

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Rearing livestock is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, in part because it contributes to deforestation as land is cleared either to rear animals or to grow crops to provide animal feed and in part through methane emissions from cattle. A study from Penn State University in 2019 found that replacing just 0.5

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Meanwhile, for reducing the amount of cow burps, the report praises the Dutch company DSM for “its product called 3-NOP that reduces these methane emissions by 30% in tests, and does not appear to have health or environmental side effects.” . Livestock genomics and regen ag left in the dirt.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

Sitting in their tiny conference room, nicknamed the “Pineapple Room” for a tropical rug that covered the floor, in the summer of 2019, he and his co-founders faced their primary investor to deliver a grim update. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 25, 2024

fluxtec is a professional service provider of gas analyses ( e.g. for carbon dioxide, methane or radon), relevant for a wide range of applications in exploration and monitoring. Simplified diagram of transport mechanism of soil gases along permeable faults from subsurface sources to the surface.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Methane, a greenhouse gas which is belched out in high volumes by cattle, has been identified by the UN and world leaders as the quickest route to cut global heating. It underplays climate impacts, stating that “research has shown that cows do not produce as much methane gas as was once believed”.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Between 1969 and 2019, global seaweed production increased to 35.8 The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success. This projected growth continues the trend of the past 50 years. million metric tons from 2.2

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GreenBiz

APRIL 16, 2021

The current situation is insane: Organic waste is the single biggest input in landfills, where it produces the potent greenhouse gas methane as it decomposes. households reported lacking the resources needed to feed all members during 2019. Keep organic waste out of landfills and incinerators . The rest could be used to make compost.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. In a 2019 report , the Croatan Institute, a research institute based in Durham, North Carolina, found some $47.5 This was no esoteric inquiry. A changing debate.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). Some examples include: The insurance industry incurred an estimated $83B in global insured catastrophe losses in 2020, by some measures nearly 50% higher than in 2019.

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Grist

JULY 26, 2019

In their letter, the 30-some authors describe how the microbes in their respective area of study — the oceans, the soil, in and on animals, the Arctic tundra, and even the air — are impacted by, and in turn impact, climate change. Humans have made the mistake of ignoring microbes in the past.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Danish Crown relaunched its website in 2019, pledging to set “a new direction towards a more sustainable future” with a “new brand and narrative” designed to “make it clearer to customers and consumers that Danish Crown has started this transformation.”. Jennifer Jacquet, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. In a 2019 report , the Croatan Institute, a research institute based in Durham, North Carolina, found some $47.5 This was no esoteric inquiry. “We thought, what about trees?

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions. How cool is that?

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Soil degradation. On June 11, 2019, Protix opened its new, 14,000 square meter facility, making it the largest processing plant for insects worldwide. Lab-grown meat dramatically cuts back on carbon emissions , methane emissions, water consumption and land use. Introduction Climate Change. Deforestation. Loss of biodiversity.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Whether it’s rotting on farms, spoiling during distribution, or generating methane in landfills, food that goes uneaten contributes roughly eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and Project Drawdown ranked eliminating food waste at #3 on its list of Top 10 Solutions. Why is that? Why do we love them?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

If you took a cubic-metre sample of the soil here, around 90 per cent of the content would be water, with the rest made up of partially decayed vegetation and organic matter that contain vast amounts of carbon. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

“The oil and gas industry has been really good at painting the picture that they are not a radioactive industry,” said Melissa Troutman, an Earthworks analyst and author of a 2019 report on oil and gas waste, “when in reality it produces a massive amount of radioactive material.”. Lotus’s first international shipment was 65.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Society had acknowledged that it had “over-estimated” the carrying capacity of soil, water, and air so “current wisdom” would lead us to “unequivocally condemn such past practice.” The act of allowing such by-products to blow into the “open air” was no longer seen as “unproblematic,” he wrote.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM writes in a 2023 legislative report. An oil and gas field within California’s San Joaquin Valley.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

Meet the Innovators Creating a Sustainable Food Sector: Startups working in food and agriculture raised almost $20 billion in funding in 2019. Yet interest in the approach from producers, food companies and legislators has not translated into widespread adoption of regenerative methods.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 28, 2020

Our portfolio companies are working on everything from expanding access to solar power in frontline communities and slashing methane emissions by feeding cows seaweed to deploying portable water quality sensors and mapping equity into street infrastructure. Food safety and traceability. Waste reduction and diversion. Alternative proteins.

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