Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Large pieces of plastic can break down into nanosized particles that often find their way into soil and water. It’s unclear how nanoplastics impact human health, but animal studies suggest they’re potentially harmful. Between the two sides, an electric field develops, and the stored charge is called capacitance.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

The “solar-powered digital nose” in situ. The first live demonstration of the group’s Silvanet system of solar-powered gas sensors was recently conducted successfully in a forest near Berlin, says the firm. . By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This diverts the wastewater from Spring Creek and allows the soil to act as a natural filter for any chemical residuals that remain in the wastewater (image credit: Heather Preisendanz, Penn State). Treated wastewater effluent is sprayed at Penn State’s beneficial reuse site, the “Living Filter.” Elkin, research chemist, and Tamie L.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Launch of the first large-scale environmental DNA project using citizen science to monitor the health of rivers. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is genetic material shed by animals into their environment, which can be isolated from water or soil samples and used to identify the species found there.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The research being conducted by Heriot-Watt and Virginia Tech will investigate how the soil behind sea walls is impacted by repeated wetting and drying cycles over time from waves overtopping the sea walls. meters higher than in 2020 – and as much as the rise measured over the last 100 years before that, from 1920 to 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Researcher Mark Higgins testing soil with a probe. Gary Robbins, UConn professor of geosciences and natural resources, explains the project started with a request from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ( DEEP ) in 2013. The researchers found evidence of leachability of the contaminants in some soils.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

Most of the health studies and legislation have focused on the “long chain” PFAS compounds – whose molecular structure tends to feature 7 or more carbon atoms – and includes things like perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). And there are many of them (more than 4,000 on the global market).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A statement from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said around 50 of the train’s 150 carriages (or “cars”, as US usage prefers) had been affected by the derailment, which happened on the evening of 3 February as a result of a broken axle. monitor in Youngstown, Ohio – around 20 miles from the crash site – spiking from 12.6

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Certification schemes aim to provide some assurance that products like compost and digestate are safe for human, animal and plant health. Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This group of widely used and enduring chemicals has been linked to a range of serious adverse health conditions including testicular cancer, thyroid disease, increased cholesterol levels, liver damage and fertility issues, as well as damaging the development of unborn children.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The authors say this poses a wide range of direct and indirect threats to human, animal and plant health. This effect, and the knock-on suppressed transfer of energy and nutrients up the food chain, could lead to breakdown of entire aquatic ecosystems. The effects have also been observed in fish.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 12, 2019

Deforestation affects rainfall, potentially triggering a vicious circle of dryer conditions, soil erosion and desertification. If there’s no plan for caring for them and monitoring them, many of them could die, and there’s no shortage of examples of failed tree plantings schemes. Biodiversity declines, crops fail. Tensions rise.

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