Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2022

To halt ecosystem breakdown and limit costs of further damage, the European Union (EU) needs an integrated nutrient directive that regulates the combined agricultural use of nitrogen and phosphorus, urges a new comment in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Nitrogen and phosphorus reach streams and lakes as agricultural run-off.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 13, 2022

They join a growing movement of companies throughout the agricultural supply chain to set ambitious targets to reach net zero by 2050 to prevent the most severe impacts from climate change. The transition to reduce agricultural GHG emissions presents both risks and opportunities for farmers and their financial partners.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 22, 2024

These include a state-of-the-art soil science and teaching laboratory created in partnership with Cornwall College and funded by the Shared Prosperity Fund. Source: Email correspondence The post Beyond the Biomes – Eden Geothermal empowers agriculture and education in the UK first appeared on ThinkGeoEnergy - Geothermal Energy News.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. The battle over agrochemical regulation is not new.

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Phase out of synthetic fertilisers and wider dietary shift away from intensively farmed meat urgently required to curb climate damaging gas, the Soil Association warns. The Soil Association said an overhaul was therefore urgently needed in the way nitrogen is used in agriculture in order to avoid further environmental and climate damage.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Photo by Italo Melo from Pexels: [link] Poultry farming is an agricultural practice that involves the rearing of domesticated birds, such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese, primarily for meat or eggs. Mitigation of soil degradation. This not only reduces synthetic fertilizers’ necessity but also improves soil fertility.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 26, 2019

In the process, it has raised its profile as a major food supplier in Europe, with more than 60 percent of Poland’s land being farmland. elazowski founded SatAgro : a precision agriculture company that monitors a quarter million hectares of large scale crops in Poland. “We SatAgro was founded in 2014, when ?elazowski

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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. The world’s soils are the second largest carbon sink, second only to oceans.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

It’s not surprising that agricultural technology, and in particular, precision agriculture are becoming crucial tools in a farmer’s arsenal. Already in use on over 500,000 hectares in the UK alone, and over 1 million hectares across Europe and Africa, RHIZA brings together years of research with precision farming expertise.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

hectare greenhouse using renewable energy sourced from Europe's largest river source heat pump. A second loop then transfers the heat to the plant room's six heat pumps to achieve a temperature of 45 degrees, which is then pumped through 50mm pipes above the soil, releasing heat into the greenhouses.

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Planet Pulse

MAY 9, 2023

Drought acts as a major threat to global agriculture, but with our Planetary Variables data feeds, we are seeing our customers and partners create drought insurance programs to mitigate risk and support farmers in critical situations. These Planetary Variables provide accurate, daily, global measurements.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

It’s the third spell this summer to afflict the Iberian Peninsula, the stretch of land jutting out of southwestern Europe that contains the countries of Spain and Portugal (among others). Climate change is making events like these more frequent and intense , particularly so in Europe. Others call it by a simpler moniker: heat wave.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that 135 gigatons — or 135 billion metric tons — of carbon would need to be returned to soils to balance out the amount of methane emitted annually by ruminants like cattle, sheep, bison, and goats. The livestock sector and its allies have run with this framing.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In February 2021, German agribusiness giant BASF hosted a virtual wine tasting, a seemingly cozy affair swirling glasses of Portugal’s finest in front of a webcam debating the future of EU agricultural policies. Europe’s Green Deal. Invited to the event was a small group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Soil Association reveals that lockdown sparked a sales surge for organic certified products. Louisa Pharaoh, director of fundraising at the Soil Association, said: "Organic September is a brilliant opportunity for us to talk to people about the Soil Association and all the work we are doing to restore nature, health and a safe climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

CHIST-ERA project, called Transient Electronics for Sustainable ICT in DigitaL Agriculture, is led by researchers from the University of Glasgow and supported by colleagues in Canada, Finland, Poland and Switzerland.

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Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Mathur, a plant geneticist, leads the Plant Breeding & Genetics Laboratory for the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, a collaboration between two United Nations agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency. billion in agricultural losses in 2022 alone.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Advocates of vertical farming argue it can slash land use impacts while also reducing water use and fertiliser demand, providing a route to drastically cut agriculture's climate impact. This advancement provides real promise for wider global food security," Fischer said.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. One says it will “push” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to host “positive livestock content” at COP28.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

Jenny Letellier – one of France’s biggest YouTubers with nearly 4 million subscribers – has come under fire for the sponsored content, which was broadcasted via a series of videos from France’s leading agriculture fair last month. Biodiversity is in sharp decline across the world, and numbers of birds and pollinators are plummeting in Europe.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. Epochs are typically stretches of several million years designated by clues left in the soil, rocks, and fossils.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Brewing giant claims regenerative agriculture programme is among largest ever in Ireland and will help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. Walter Furlong Junior, one of the farmers involved in the pilot, hailed the "simplicity of the approach" to rolling out regenerative agriculture practices.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2021

But others, like permafrost melt releasing the carbon stored in Arctic soils — were more certain and designated “high confidence.”. Permafrost is Arctic soil that stays frozen all year and contains ancient reserves of carbon in the form of decomposing organic matter.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2022

To aid their search, the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) today published a new report titled How Cities Can Feed Themselves: A Ten-Point Plan , which argued that a range of agricultural technology innovations could see cities grow up to 30 per cent of their fresh produce within their borders by the end of the decade.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

While livestock and their feed make up 85 per cent of the UK's total land-use for agriculture, meat and dairy products provide less than 32 per cent of calories and 48 per cent of protein in British diets, it notes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

With very little known about its productivity in flooded and moisture-saturated soil conditions, researchers at the Earlham Institute in Norwich wanted to understand the differences in water-stress tolerance among Miscanthus species to guide genomics-assisted crop breeding.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

According to environmental experts and campaigners, the meat industry downplays the climate impact of animal agriculture and exaggerates the potential of different innovations to reduce it, depicting meat as indispensable to feeding the world’s population while denying the need to cut consumption globally to reach climate targets.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, if food waste were a nation, it would rank third in terms of greenhouse gas emissions after the US and China. Agriculture is responsible for one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions, and each year, we throw away roughly 1.8

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Demand for ethanol in Scotland is expected to double in the coming years to more than 100 million litres, yet all of the country’s supply is currently imported from Europe. You cannot have a chemicals industry without a feedstock and to retain the sector in Scotland we need a local supply and the supply chains that follow.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

When rocks, such as basalt and other silicates, are crushed and added to the soil, they dissolve and react with carbon dioxide, forming carbonates and lock carbon dioxide. Normally, farmers use limestone dust on the soil to reduce acidification. The use of limestone in agriculture helps enhance yield. For 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. These pesticides are so dangerous that we've made the very sensible decision to ban their use in our own country and across Europe.

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Business Green

APRIL 13, 2021

investment through its current seed funding round - with a series A round to follows later in the year - to help scale up its carbon offsetting programme, which it said offered a "huge opportunity" for the agricultural sector to reduce its emissions. As such, the company is seeking a further $2.5m If all of the world's 1.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The study calculates that climate impacts such as floods, droughts and heatwaves have hit agricultural yields to the point where they add around £170 to the average annual bill. He added that the agricultural sector has to urgently embrace more climate resilient farming techniques or risk further food price inflation.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The MyFarmWeb platform unveiled on Thursday aims to provide farmers with a means to store, visualise, and view information gathered via agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and other data sources in the field. Pilots of the technology are underway in five farms in Europe, including operations managed by Dairygold in Ireland.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

And, several months later, Ipsos Mori carried out another poll of 200 large scale farmers in Europe, which found that while 46 per cent were concerned that dealing with Covid-19 would have substantial impacts on their business, 53 per cent still saw climate change as a more pressing priority.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks.

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