Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030. The why: Palm oil is responsible for 1.4%

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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. In the U.S., auris was first spreading in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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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

MAY 16, 2022

Drought Monitor using data on soil moisture, streamflow, and precipitation to categorize droughts by their severity. billion in agricultural losses, along with “widespread wildfires, poor air quality, damaged ecosystems, and degraded mental health,” according to a study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth. Mass production of the sensors and gateways will begin shortly in Germany.

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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. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In addition to protecting 2.1 In related news, the UK government today also announced a new £2.7m

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The pesticides have been banned for use on EU soil but Greenpeace says a "loophole" means export of these chemicals to often poorer countries remains not only legal but a thriving industry. A second pesticide named in the investigation is soil fumigant 1,3-Dichloropropene. BusinessGreen has requested comment from Syngenta.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

More than 70 per cent of large-scale farmers in the US, France, China, Brazil, India and across much of Africa harbour significant concerns about the impact of climate change on their crops and business over the next five years, the findings of a major new Ipsos Mori poll have shown.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. “Instead of taking 77 years to get that 500 gigatons out, we could actually have that in 35 years,” Schmitz said. “We

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You can see an image presented with a vegetation index that is color coded to indicate crop health – red indicates lower vegetation and green indicates higher vegetation. Below are sample outputs from RHIZA’s app, Contour. The two sections show different periods of the growing season.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone has already demonstrated a 14% reduction in absolute methane emissions from 2018 and 2020, with successful projects that have demonstrated benefits for farmers in Africa, the European Union and U.S., while reducing emissions per gallon of milk. Plus, it’s good for corporate bottom lines and financial futures.

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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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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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Nature is crucial for our survival, our mental health, and also our economy, argues WWF's Gareth Redmond-King. Part of my coping package involves nature and its positive impact on my mental health. And of many things we're learning from this public health crisis, one is that nature delivers more for us than just climate mitigation.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

While progress is being made in the UK - which has defined a voluntary carbon standard for forest projects - and Thailand, Colombia and South Africa, government engagement on the issue remains limited, it notes. Governments tend to be relatively unaware of the VCM," the report notes.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Every effort must be expended on reducing risks and unknowns, whether from changes in weather, crop disease, and livestock health, or fluctuating commodity and market prices, not to mention consumer tastes and regulatory requirements. Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Massive flooding destroyed at least 4 million acres of farmland in Pakistan in 2022, triggering a food crisis for more than 8 million people; in East Africa, extreme drought has pushed millions of people to the brink of famine in the past three years. In the United States, natural disasters, many made worse by climate change, caused $21.5

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Business Green

MARCH 14, 2022

How might these regenerative approaches restore the health of ecosystems? There is noticeable improvement in biodiversity, soil health and rebalancing of ecosystems. Nestlé has recently launched plans to scale up regenerative agroforestry of cocoa in Africa. This is an opportunity to flip how we frame impacts.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. “Instead of taking 77 years to get that 500 gigatons out, we could actually have that in 35 years,” Schmitz said. “We

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Energy Innovation

JULY 14, 2020

They point out that already some countries like Mexico, South Africa, and the U.S. 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). where population density is lower).

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. In South Africa, she explains, Sappi owns and leases 964,000 acres of land, of which about a third is managed for biodiversity conservation.

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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. The plant has evolved to grow underneath forest canopy, where the quality of the soil provides it with good nourishment. As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Climate impacts are happening now, worsening and in some cases irreversible. by the 2100.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe. The new fund aims to help boost soil health and farm resilience as Canadian potato farmers face the escalating impacts of climate change on yield and crop quality.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

From a diplomacy perspective, the Department of State has been leveraging satellite data as a way to guide understanding soil content and rainfall in Africa prior to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP 27 ) in Egypt later this year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Out of more than 200 groups currently listed on its website, 51 are from the United States and Canada, compared to only 11 from Africa. In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. But Global North groups dominate.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said on Saturday at the COP27 session titled “Global Fertilizer Challenge: Announcing New Funding for Fertilizer Efficiency and Soil Health.”. Industrial agricultural methods, dubbed ‘Climate Smart Agriculture,’ promote the use of excessive chemical inputs on plants and in the soil.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Such impacts "are causing severe and widespread disruption in nature and in society; reducing our ability to grow nutritious food or provide enough clean drinking water, thus affecting people's health and well-being and damaging livelihoods" it adds. "In The threats and impacts are myriad, interlinked, and deeply worrying.

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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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Grist

JUNE 27, 2020

A satellite captures a dust plume leaving Africa on June 19. By contrast, the lush rainforests to the south of the Sahara have trees that both block the wind and hold on to the soil with their roots, keeping all the muck from taking to the air. The dust plume arrived in the Caribbean a few days after it left Africa.

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Business Green

MAY 11, 2022

Russia is waging a war on European soil, with global implications for energy and food supplies. Meanwhile, severe famines have hit Yemen and the Horn of Africa. Every decimal point of warming avoided is an opportunity for better health, more prosperity and better security. Today, the world looks ever more complex.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

It’s being grown in the Senegal River Basin in West Africa. The IR8 variety of rice, for example, which was integral to the Green Revolution in the 1960s, is being phased out in places in favor of native cultivars that are easier on the soil and more disease-resistant. Rice, which is a food source for 3.5 And a team of U.S.

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