The Environmental Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Pakistan is considered one of the disaster-prone countries in Asia. These play role in the flooding equation because trees strengthen the soil and prevent soil erosion and absorb water efficiently. Natural disasters such as Droughts, Floods, and heat waves have become common in the country. Fewer Tress = More Floods.

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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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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.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

Piles of decomposing cow manure emit methane and nitrous oxide, in addition to polluting water and contaminating soil. While the demand is primarily in Europe and Asia currently, Lignium Energy’s team says that the United States is expected to meaningfully shift from relying on coal to utilizing biomass. “We

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Many people are already familiar with Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, and China as some of the leaders of geothermal development in Asia. However, they noticed that there was wet soil with faint traces of steam around the boarded area. The team inserted thermometers into the wet soil, finding that the temperatures exceeded 90°C.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

There is, after all, no path to net zero that doesn't involve an expansion in nature, which is essential even before considering added benefits such as improved flood resilience, better soil and air quality, and of course reduced pandemic risks. But what are so-called 'nature-based solutions'?

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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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Eco-Business

JANUARY 19, 2023

Intense wildfires damage soil on the forest floor, contributing to dangerous flash floods across the mountains of South Asia.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

That explains why a once indigenous plant to South Asia can now thrive in virtually any region around the world. Cannabis is unquestionably one of the world’s most resilient plants. Cannabis is informally known as weed, a name that resonates with the fact that the plant can flourish on its.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

However, it replaces water with custom-made composite blocks, or “mobile masses”, that can be made from local soil, mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash) and end-of-life decommissioned wind turbine blades. Also of interest: Opening day for Enlit Asia 2022 a dynamic start to 3 days in Bangkok.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Organic urban agriculture, renewable energy and beautiful landscaping come together at the Thammasat University Rooftop Farm (TURF), Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm that spans 236,806 square feet. Read more from the original source: Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm can grow 20 tons of food annually.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. Create a composting area since wasted food may enrich the soil with nutrients and lower your carbon footprint.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. For decades, governments of Southeast Asia gave agricultural companies the rights to develop vast swathes of forest, and those companies turned wilderness into plantations as fast as they could.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

With their wide deployment and persistence, it’s no surprise PFAS collect in landfills – one of a number of acute pressure points in the environment where there is an elevated risk of their finding their way into soil, water and air. Longer-chain PFAS such as PFOS and PFOS-precursors seem to dominate in landfill sediment.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Energy Vault (EV) uses waste materials such as excavated soil at customer construction sites, mine tailings, coal combustion residuals (coal ash), and fiberglass to make its long-duration energy storage systems. Have you read?

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition. Usually, they're more excited about this because we replace the limestone they're using to de-acidify their soil and restore nutrients with something that can do a better job.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2022

The findings come amid soaring food and energy prices, driven in part by the conflict in Ukraine, which had been one of the world's largest wheat producers and exporters, and crippling heat waves in parts of Europe and Asia that have impacted agricultural yields.

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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

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

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3 million trees. +

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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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. per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change. "It

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Business Green

JUNE 21, 2022

On average 200 new species are discovered in freshwater wetlands each year and these precious habitats store almost a third of global soil carbon. Wetlands cover six per cent of the Earth's surface, but are home to 40 per cent of the world's plant and animal species.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Clearance and burning of forests and carbon-rich peat soils in order to free-up land for palm oil plantations is among the biggest drivers of deforestation in the tropics, destroying precarious wildlife habitats, removing natural carbon storage, and accelerating biodiversity loss and climate change. "It

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

In the early 20th century, Dutch elm disease, a fungus from Asia that is spread by elm bark beetles, killed 75 percent of native elms. We’ve toyed with basically everything,” said Yolanda Chen, associate professor of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. Land use, pollution, fire history—all factor into ecology.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. And other scientists have questioned whether black birch would really be an improvement over hemlock when it comes to carbon storage. The black beetle seemed hardier.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

With a national average of 232 people/km2, Vietnam has the highest population density in Southeast Asia after Singapore. Chances of flooding could rise as there will be more incidence of extreme rainfall and soil fertility also decreases. Inter- and intra-seasonal rainfall, drought, and dry season will be seen more significantly.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Pointing to the reddish river water mixed with mud, Xing said: “The mountain can’t hold soil anymore. Soil should be healthy, waterways protected and the health and wellbeing of workers guaranteed. The fertilizers are all wasted.”

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. It’s a term favoured by many food companies, despite the fact that scientists have said that soils are not a reliable way to store carbon in the long term, and that removals can be easily undone.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2022

This ensured fewer soiling losses and provided a better albedo effect. The plant surpassed its maximum annual energy declared to the off-taker (TNB) by 6%, a performance that was replicated in 2020, with the solar farm generating 108,900MWh or 5% more than declared. Sepang’s digital prowess.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

However, the report - which draws on an SMF roundtable that was sponsored by Impossible Foods - argues that the absence of a formal strategy from the UK government for supporting the nascent market contrasts with ambitious plans from governments in Europe and Asia.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

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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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