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Gas sensor network provides early wildfire detection

Envirotec Magazine

Mesh gateways featuring Dryad’s patent-pending distributed mesh network architecture – an extension to the LoRaWAN open standard for long-range radio IoT networks. The sensor uses artificial intelligence capabilities to reliably detect wildfires and to distinguish from other sources such as a diesel truck driving by.

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'We need a new paradigm': Can the world ditch 'directionless' growth for a fairer, net zero economy?

Business Green

Left unchecked, rising inequality and poverty will lead to worsening social and geopolitical tensions, creating vastly more dysfunctional societies and volatile economies that make it far more difficult to tackle existential threats such as the climate and biodiversity crises.

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

The European Biodiversity strategy, which is another core plank of the Green Deal, includes similar goals. They added that the use of glyphosate can help reduce emissions from farming, by reducing the need for plowing the soil, a technique which can cause the soil to release greenhouse gases.