Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

Innovative farming methods will be used to help address the affects of climate change, in a new project announced on 21 March by Blenheim Estate. The group will be working in partnership with British climate tech firm A Healthier Earth on the ForestFactory concept.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Ian Paton, Head of Oxford PBC and Ed Yeates, Project Engineer at Property Consultants Cluttons , discuss how climate change is increasing the risk of flooding to UK property owners and why implementing flood risk management measure is crucial to protecting assets. Impacts of climate change on flooding.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 17, 2019

As we all know that climate change is one of the most significant challenges that we are facing in this century. Vietnam, known for its beaches, rivers, and bustling cities, is considered as one of the countries which are significantly impacted by global climate change. Current Status of Climate Change in Vietnam.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Get a behind-the-scenes look at urban and indigenous food systems and how farmers are working to grow local food that is resilient to climate change, taps the wisdom of elders and looks at regenerative agricultural design for the future. Breakout sessions include: Farm Resilience and Climate Change Mitigation Strategies.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Green water is the water cycle available to plants, including rainfall and soil moisture. But we are profoundly changing the water cycle. Other transgressed boundaries are: climate change, biodiversity loss, biogeochemical cycles, land use and, in 2022, chemical pollution. It depends on soil moisture for its survival.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We evaluate if this sustainable agricultural practice can serve as a climate-smart agricultural practice in terms of food production, soil health, and environmental sustainability. What is biochar?

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. So how is climate change making the world both drier and wetter at the same time?

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. The post Greentown Sector Pitch Day Highlights Solutions for Agricultural Decarbonization and Resilience appeared first on Greentown Labs.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2021

Soil scientist Neil Fuller launches the Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme with East Yorkshire farmers. A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil quality on the Yorkshire Wolds. per cent to 6.0

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Business Green

JANUARY 12, 2023

Great Britain's trees and woodlands contribute more than £400m a year to the economy through their contribution to flood resilience, new research has calculated. The report outlines how forests help to reduce flooding in a number of ways.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Farming needs to urgently scale and pace the adoption of nature-based solutions for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss or face an uncertain future, warns the Nature Friendly Farming Network, an independent organisation that aims to unite farmers across the UK. The effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 5, 2024

By Asa DeHaan , Research Technician at Aspen Global Change Institute and Elise Osenga , Community Science Manager at Aspen Global Change Institute. A root-dense sample of wet meadow soil. The soil microbiome is a complex life system dominated by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and numerous other microorganisms.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

This article will cover the Holocene—the era of conditions that enabled society to grow and thrive, the theory of the Anthropocene, planetary boundaries, tipping points, and resilience thinking while urging readers to consider their impact and how to secure the future they want. The Anthropocene: Pushing Society Past Its Limits.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Fast food giant working with McCain and Prince's Countryside Trust to help farmers improve soil health and boost resilience to climate change and Brexit. The money will also fund research looking at the benefits of using cover crops to retain soil quality.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Ranchers found the species remarkably resilient and, if not beloved by cattle, edible enough to plant. Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The report also suggested that climate change is already having an impact on food prices by causing extreme weather and warned that the UK's supplies could increasingly be put at risk and made more expensive by these extremes. That's how much extra households are paying for food this year due to gas prices and climate change.".

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Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Director Emily Jack-Scott and a full list of AGCI’s updates covering recent climate change and clean energy pathways research is available online at [link]. Among the projections: climate impacts worsen nearly 60 percent of infectious diseases. Source: Mora et al.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

Government's failure to prioritise climate resilience risks undermining UK's ability to meet net zero and biodiversity goals, CCC warns. I think it's really important to reinforce the point that net zero doesn't solve this problem - the climate will go on changing, at least until 2050," she explained.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2022

It is time for soil health to rise up the climate agenda, in particular at the companies whose products depend on it, argues Moët Hennessy's Sandrine Somers. Healthy soil is the common thread between agriculture, viticulture, and fighting climate change. As living ecosystems, soils support biodiversity.

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EDF + Business

MAY 12, 2021

Climate change presents an immediate risk to businesses across the economy. Food and agricultural companies in particular face challenges associated with more extreme and volatile weather, both in terms of the impact it has on their bottom line, as well as their long-term resilience and ability to withstand disruptions. .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The wildfires across Europe this summer have been viewed as a wakeup call to do more to combat the effects of climate change. “Despite climate change increasing the frequency and severity of wildfire across the UK, wildfire detection methods have remained largely unchanged,” says the firm.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After 20 years, they can attain on average nearly 80% of the soil fertility, soil carbon storage, structure, and tree diversity of old-growth forests. The study concludes that natural regeneration is a low-cost, nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Building more resilient supply chains is a business imperative, especially as the likelihood for more disruption increases. In fact, workplace disruptions caused by climate change could lead to more than $2 trillion in productivity losses by 2030. Building resilience: Where do we go from here? . And so too is mitigation.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2023

This disparity in the focus enjoyed by climate mitigation and climate resilience is replicated within many corporate climate plans. Experts have long warned businesses will have to move past their climate resilience blindspot if they are to cope with ever-escalating climate risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The outcomes could improve how major roads across the United Kingdom are maintained and upgraded, even as climate change increases the challenge of keeping them fit for purpose. Dr Cao said: “Climate change poses an extra threat to our roads. Potholes on England’s major roads have caused 5,000 injuries since 2018.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the result, critics say, has been a proliferation of intensive farming practices that damage soils, nature, and the climate by ironing out as much unpredictability as possible from the natural world through pesticides, hulking machinery, and crop homogeneity. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

By Guest AuthorThis blog was authored by Emily Oldfield, Agricultural Soil Carbon Scientist at EDF. Natural climate solutions, such as reforestation and wetland restoration, can help slow climate change and increase resilience in the face of climate impacts we can’t avoid.

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Business Green

AUGUST 11, 2020

McCains, the UK's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, has unveiled the 'McCain Potato Farmer Pledge' backed by a £25m investment designed to help its supply chain better manage the impact of both climate change and the coronavirus crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Soil itself can hold immense amounts of carbon and is capable of absorbing — through sequestration — more carbon than either oceans or forests. It’s estimated that over the last few centuries, at least 50 percent of the Earth’s soil carbon has been released into the atmosphere. A lack of available alternatives.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change isn’t a 'side of desk' activity, yet corporate efforts to bolster resilience are failing to keep pace with worsening climate impacts - BusinessGreen Intelligence's latest trend report explores how firms should respond to escalating climate risks "The wolf is at the door," warns Greenpeace UK's head of politics, Rebecca Newsom.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting in greater pesticide usage and therefore further greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new report.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Ministers should urgently 'make a clear statement of ambition' on climate and flood resilience, UK climate, infrastructure and insurance experts warn. Instead, we need to plan better and - in some cases - adapt to future flooding and climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It more clearly shows how human activities like farming, mining, forestry and industry can contaminate water, cause soil erosion, and pollute the atmosphere. It thus represents a critical step-change in visually conveying the impacts of catchment-scale human activities in the Anthropocene epoch on landscape change and ecosystem degradation.”

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sustainable agriculture includes a variety of practices, such as using more environmentally friendly fertilizers and pesticides, conserving water, and reducing soil erosion. But in recent years, there has been a renewed interest in sustainable agriculture as the world confronts the challenges of climate change and dwindling resources.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2023

The approach must be a core part of the UK’s defence against flooding and climate change, he said. million m3 of water storage and increased flood resilience to 15,000 homes, said a statement. EA chief executive Sir James Bevan set out his vision for Natural Flood Management (NFM) on 9 December. What is it?

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free fertilizer for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. Many routine ways of managing yards have destroyed the organic portion of our soil and poisoned the microbial community.

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EDF + Business

AUGUST 3, 2021

Senior Manager, Resilient Food and Forest. A new report highlights differences in the approaches used to produce agricultural soil carbon credits and how this can cause uncertainty for companies looking to purchase or generate them. Does soil carbon have a role to play in corporate climate strategies?

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