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Exploring the Field of Environ Engineering: Safeguarding Our Planet for Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

Soil and Groundwater Remediation : Contaminated sites pose significant risks to ecosystems and human health. Environmental engineers use various techniques to remediate polluted soil and groundwater. Physical and chemical methods, such as soil washing and in-situ chemical oxidation, are also employed.

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Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem

Envirotec Magazine

However, the farming sector can tackle micropollutants by minimising runoff through cover cropping and soil conservation, and optimising pesticide management to reduce leaching and emissions. Some use technologies like ozone oxidation, and membrane filtration.

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What’s best for you: Rain garden or bioswale?

Greenability Magazine

Both a rain garden and bioswale retain or slow the movement of water from the property, decreasing stormwater runoff. Water leaving your property carries particles of soil and organic debris with it. Rain gardens and bioswales slow the movement allowing it to soak into the soil and reduce flash flooding issues.

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Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

Diversification, whether it’s on a single farm or across a local economy, can make towns more resilient, the report says. Renewed interest in cultivating native crops like taro helps restore local ecosystems and strengthen their resilience to threats like wildfires that feast on dry invasive grasses. That applies on land, too.

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean.

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Flood City Fights Climate Change with Infrastructure and Social Media

Unsustainable

The city of Miami is focused on prevention first, through industrial solutions; construction, installation, and the erection of barriers. inches of runoff water, according to the project specs from the Florida Stormwater Associations 2018 Winter Conference. The bioswales are designed to manage runoff and capture the initial 1.5