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Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet

GreenBiz

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet. For example, our deepening understanding of DNA helps us discern how drugs, medication, multi-vitamins or treatment plans work differently in patients — creating a brand-new frontier, personalized medicine. Soil at the center . Poornima Param….

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Community Urban Gardens in Santiago, Chile

Unsustainable

In the south of Chile, this biodiversity is home to many dairy, meat, and wool farms, with sheep, cows, and alpacas. Native plants help preserve the soil and prevent soil erosion. This helps aerate and stabilize the soil and maintain its pH balance, while producing edible forms of agriculture.

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Are Food Systems Harming the Planet?

Sustainability Consulting

32% come from land use changes including deforestation and soil degradation (these activities released 5.7 This “rewilded” land fosters biodiversity while improving crop yields. Food generates about 2 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions (CO2e) per person annually. ? gigatons of CO2e emissions globally in 2015). ?

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Sustainable alternatives to garden lawns: Part 1

Low Impact

The type, pH, quality, and fertility of the soil. Provide other yields, such as fuel for heating, timber, and natural materials for crafting and DIY projects, herbal medicines, etc. All of the suggestions above will increase the biodiversity in your garden to some degree. Whether the location is sheltered or exposed.

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Government says beavers can stay in their Devon home

Envirotec Magazine

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. These include flood attenuation, water quality improvement, carbon storage, greater biodiversity and socio-economic benefits to local businesses through wildlife tourism.

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Report: UK farmers must align practices with climate-friendly future or face collapse

Business Green

A wave of bankruptcies could sweep across the UK's farming industry unless the government helps farmers shift their production methods to enable a biodiverse and low-carbon future, according to a report published today by the Nature Friendly Farming Network (NFFN).

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Covid-19 and the environment: Three steps to help prevent the next pandemic

Business Green

Commercial agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation across the world, with land dedicated to growing trees and other plants cleared to grow crops or support livestock, causing soil erosion and animal and plant extinction. By protecting the environment, wildlife and biodiverse habitats we can help prevent the next pandemic.