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Monitoring an important greenhouse gas (Sponsored content)

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Pests and diseases are preferably tackled biologically, and the energy-efficient greenhouse reuses water and nutrients as much as possible; leading to cleaner cultivation and improved yields. This programme monitors and displays the effects of a grower’s dosing strategy. Monitoring carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide in greenhouses.

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COVID-19 drugs persist in wastewater, and may pose risk to aquatic organisms

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Certain drugs used to treat COVID-19 patients — including remdesivir, dexamethasone and antibiotics for associated bacterial infections — persist through wastewater treatment and may occur in waterways at levels high enough to negatively affect aquatic organisms, according to a new study led by researchers at Penn State University.

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Sponsored content: ABB technology to help tackle methane leakages from orphan oil and gas wells

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With the help of ABB technology, organizations such as The Well Done Foundation, the nonprofit that works to plug orphan oil and gas wells in the US, can detect leaking wells. Methane has more than 80 times the warming power of carbon dioxide over the first 20 years after it reaches the atmosphere, according to the Environment Defense Fund.

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Offshore geothermal resource explored in new white paper

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Such a location holds forth the potential to generate baseload power, fresh H2O, green H2 and NH3 with the potential for CO2 storage and controlled ocean fertilisation, according to CGG’s research (image credit: © CGG).

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Immediate action on organic waste needed to meet Paris targets, says biogas group

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Human activity generates 105bn tonnes of organic wastes (food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes) annually by human activity. Treating the world’s unavoidable organic wastes through AD would help meet over one quarter of this alarming shortfall (2).

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IoT will save 8x the energy it consumes by 2030, says report

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By 2030 IoT deployment and its disruption of various industries is expected to save more than eight times the energy it consumes, resulting in net savings of 230 billion cubic meters of water, and eliminating one gigaton of CO2 emissions, according to the authors of a report released on 20 April. PWh reduction of (hydrocarbon) fuel.

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Project sets out to create compostable crop sensors

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An international research collaboration is setting out to find new ways of monitoring crop growth with biodegradable sensors which can be composted at the end of their lifespan. They will find ways to create devices built from sustainable and degradable materials with the aim of cutting down on the growing problem of electronic waste.