GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Both actions help utilities stressed by peak seasonal heating and cooling needs. ” That R&D effort includes honing a next-generation heat pump and logging data on soil strata in the regions where the company drills frequently, which allows teams to prepare the best equipment for the geology they’re planning to drill in.

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Grist

JULY 11, 2023

Yafali and his family found respite in their AC, but they were fortunate outliers; Seattle, known for its cool, wet winters and mild summers, is one of the least air conditioned big cities in the country. They took refuge in shady parks or in community cooling centers. Earlier this month, Earth logged its seven hottest days ever.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. The rainforest’s canopy, for example, regulates temperature, cooling the atmosphere. That is a land size equivalent to 10.3

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2021

Know your soil Perhaps the single most important thing you can do for gardening success is to understand the composition of your soil (it’s more than dirt; it’s an ecosystem!). Simply grab a soil sample kit from the gardening center or take a sample to your regional extension center. They may do well. They may not.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

A report out last Thursday found that the understudied cooling effects of trees — like their role in the water cycle and the compounds they emit — have kept the planet half a degree Celsius cooler, not even accounting for the carbon dioxide they capture. So is it time to stop focusing on ‘planting’ trees? It all comes down to trade-offs.

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Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

She found that current carbon accumulation rates vary by a factor of a hundred, depending on climate, soils, altitude, and terrain. Combining the mapping and carbon accumulation data, Cook-Patton estimates that natural forest regrowth could capture in biomass and soils 73 billion tons of carbon between now and 2050.

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