Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Drinks giant Diageo has announced plans to invest £450,000 in innovations that can monitor and lessen the impact of the climate and water crises on smallholder farms in Africa. Even under the 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After 20 years, they can attain on average nearly 80% of the soil fertility, soil carbon storage, structure, and tree diversity of old-growth forests. A new study, published in Science , shows that regrowing tropical forests recover surprisingly fast on abandoned land.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Aptly named, Justdiggit supports local farmers and pastoralists in Tanzania and Kenya to use accessible tools, like shovels, to dig bunds—semi-circular shaped pits that help the soil capture rainwater. With 300,000 hectares under regreening, Justdiggit and their partners have already brought back over 10 million trees in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

In October 2019 a pioneering pilot project was carried out on more than 1,000km of transmission mains in the south of Africa using Utilis’ satellite-borne L-band synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) analytics. Marking a likely leak location. The post Tackling leakage from all angles first appeared on Envirotec.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And some schemes in South Africa too? Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Here are ways we can support the environment, regenerate the soil etc, but we don’t have the money. Most land in Kenya was fertile soil 200 years ago. Is that right? And some trade seasonally.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 2, 2020

The benefits of protecting and restoring soil carbon go well beyond any one farm or any one year. Originally posted here: Why protecting soil carbon is a win-win for farmers and the planet. But not enough people are taking these steps.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Professor Marshall is also principal investigator of FoRCE (Forest Restoration and Climate Experiment) and founding director of Reforest Africa.

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The City Fix

APRIL 27, 2023

Many people point to forest restoration as a way to curb climate change, where replanted forests sequester carbon in trees and soils. But emerging evidence shows that restoration can provide non-carbon climate benefits, too — in particular, reducing heat and regulating rainfall. Here’s what.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. The inclusion of biodiversity is part of Textile Exchange's Climate+ strategy, which focuses on urgent climate action and recognizes that soil health, water and biodiversity will play a key role in this transition. New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion. Liesl Truscott.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

They were sampled from highly specialized habitats such as arid soils in Namibian deserts, the surface of lichens around the world, natron lakes in Chad, crevices in rocks in South Africa, or polluted brooks in Switzerland. Most of these strains had never been assessed for their biotechnological potential before. mg per g.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

A high-pressure system called an anticyclone reached the region from Africa and created a heat dome , thrusting the sizzling peninsula into peril with both atmospheric and land surface temperatures (LST) routinely exceeding 40°C (104°F) across the region. Even with the flooding, the dryness in the Iberian peninsula has been alarmingly low.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At

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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.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over time, they suck the soil dry of metals like nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold. At the midpoint of that range, a farmer would net a cool $3,800 per acre of nickel at today’s prices – which, van der Ent added, is “on par with some of the best-performing agricultural crops on fertile soils, while operating costs are similar.”.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2022

Drought Monitor using data on soil moisture, streamflow, and precipitation to categorize droughts by their severity. Flash droughts are also a global problem, with Brazil, India, and multiple countries in Africa facing the worst impacts. As the air warms, it can lead to more evaporation and dry out the soil. Jeffrey Basara.

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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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Business Green

JULY 27, 2022

Luckily, regenerative practices - like planting cover crops, minimising tillage and synthetic input use, and diversifying crop rotations - build soils and farm resilience while reducing emissions and sequestering soil carbon. you cannot dictate a specific package of practices on all farms globally.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 15, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 15 — SupPlant‘s sensorless hardware collects real-time data on plants, soil and the climate conditions to help farmers make precise irrigation. The post SupPlant raises $10 million for affordable irrigation for smallholder farmers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Over the past century, the toxic additive has contaminated air, dust, soil, drinking water, and food crops, with hugely damaging impacts on human health, including heart disease, strokes and cancer, in addition to affecting the development of the human brain, especially in children.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

The fund seeks to focus on projects in northern Africa, the east coast and west coast of Africa, northern Australia, Indonesia and pockets of North and South America in areas that used to carry trees but are not densely filled with trees due to human degradation or natural erosion.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Thanks to high precision modeling, they determined that most tropical forest aspects, including the soil , trees, and living organisms, can be restored to their natural state over time. Over 2,275 plots of land in the Americas and West Africa were analyzed. Plant and animal biodiversity could recover in about 60 years.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2023

This includes helping better understand land use conversion in southern Africa, as well as supporting Cambodia in its UNFCCC reporting. Instituto Patrimonio Historico e Artistico Nacional in Brazil is using the data to detect deforestation and/or soil movement on unpermitted archaeological sites. and many, many more!

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3 percent of climate finance.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Your gift will produce oxygen, improve air quality, sequester CO2, help reduce urban heat gain, prevent soil erosion, provide windbreaks, feed people, support wildlife, reduce violence and bring people together, according to Tree People, a non-profit organization that supports trees. So, this year, consider giving a tree. Help plant a forest.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Business on its home soil had been on hiatus after subsidy support stopped and before post-subsidy economics became attractive. In the meantime, the London-based company has been making progress with projects in Spain , won capacity in France's tenders, expanded into Italy and restarted its activity in the U.K.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

What they suggest is quite radical,” said Lauren Gifford, associate director of the Soil Carbon Solutions Center at Colorado State University who was not involved in the research. For example, Blue Carbon, a company backed by the United Arab Emirates, has been buying enormous swaths of land in Africa to fuel its offsets program. “We

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We can provide even greater value to the farmer by layering in additional data sources like weather and soil data, as well as additional spectral bands from publicly available Sentinel imagery, ” says Rachel Watling, Marketing and Key Account Manager, AgSpace. .

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Just think about this: According to WEP, consumers in wealthy nations squander nearly as much food annually as is produced in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Create a composting area since wasted food may enrich the soil with nutrients and lower your carbon footprint. We waste too much of it, and that is the issue. Ways To Decrease.

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Low Impact

JUNE 16, 2021

Not only can large, industrial farms not feed the world in the future, they will destroy the very soils and ecology of the only planet that we have to provide food at all. If the world does still need a modicum of SNF, the people who unquestionably need it most are poor (usually small-scale) farmers in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 17, 2023

Areas of the world where solar panel soiling is a major problem—sunny, arid regions including the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa—are also prime spots for solar energy deployment. In places such as these, panels need to be cleaned daily to maintain their maximum energy yield, but this is cost- and labor-prohibitive.

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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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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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Planet Pulse

JULY 10, 2023

Imagine an insatiably thirsty atmosphere that gets so hot and dry that it literally sucks the water right out of crops and the soil. But for now, let’s look at the way we can harness Soil Water Content data to analyze rapid changes in global soil moisture.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

billion to turn North Africa into a regional natural gas hub, and $830 million in oil projects over the next two years, the analysis found. IBM, also a sponsor, works with pesticide and fertiliser companies to promote “carbon farming” – a carbon offsetting technique that generates carbon credits for storing carbon in soils.

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