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'Historical underestimation': Nitrogen fertiliser 'overlooked' driver of climate change, Soil Association warns

Business Green

Manure is also rich in nitrogen, it points out, but intensive farming models which separate livestock from crops - for example, the reliance on soy from South America as feed for cattle in Europe - make it impractical to use natural manure as a primary source of nitrogen, leading to greater reliance on synthetic products.

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Planet Announces New Details of Hyperspectral Offering

Planet Pulse

This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. This factsheet is part of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database project.

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Fossil Fuel Firms Use Permitting Loopholes to Fast-Track LNG Export Projects Near Black Communities

DeSmogBlog

When it evaporates, it’s methane. You can’t breathe methane. produced LNG under long-term export contracts is destined for the Asia-Pacific region, according to a recent report by energy watchdogs, a sign of Europe’s reluctance to commit to long term contracts for fossil fuels in the face of climate change.

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Heard of “Net-Zero Oil” or “Carbon Negative” Bioenergy? In 2023 You Will

DeSmogBlog

These fish would otherwise be feeding communities — already hard hit by climate change — who have no other way to replace this lost superfood, which contains the nutrients most needed by children in their first 1,000 days of life. – Hazel Healy, DeSmog’s UK editor. Global Oilfields.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

"Similarly, chickens in the UK are largely fed on soya which is often imported from South America. The report from BSI comes in the same week as a separate academic study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change , which calculated that the food industry alone would push the world past 1.5C

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COP26 a washout? Don’t lose hope – here’s why

Renewable Energy World

Since the last climate conference took place in Madrid in 2019, we’ve seen wildfires in Greece, Australia, Canada, and South America, biblical floods in China, the UK, Germany and America, and record-breaking hurricanes, cyclones, and tornadoes across the globe.