Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The experiment was set up by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and colleagues over twenty years ago as part of the SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP). The results were published on 15 September in the journal Science Advances.
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
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. Salt is even getting kicked up into the air: In arid regions, “lakes are drying up and sending plumes of saline dust into the atmosphere,” such as the Aral Sea in Central Asia, the study says.
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.
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
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 11, 2023
Most of the health studies and legislation have focused on the “long chain” PFAS compounds – whose molecular structure tends to feature 7 or more carbon atoms – and includes things like perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). And there are many of them (more than 4,000 on the global market).
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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