Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New research will monitor the contribution of new native woodland in England towards mitigating the worst effects of climate change, such as flooding. They will measure rainfall, soil properties and streamflow and track changes over time. Another key focus will be researching how establishing new trees alters the properties of soil.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

2020 was an unusual year in many respects, but for OTT Hydromet, one of the more remarkable features of the year was an unprecedented level of orders for water level and flow monitoring equipment. Accurate, reliable, low-power, smart sensors. This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with OTT Hydrometry Ltd.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

POPs are ubiquitous in our environment (water systems, soil, air and sediments) and they bioaccumulate, passing from species to species through the trophic chain, ultimately ending up in the human body. While this technique is powerful and effective, it is primarily used to analyze targeted compounds of interest.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing. Again, accurate monitoring and control is vital.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

In Norway, InfoTiles’ digital water and wastewater management system is being used by one municipality for I&I water detection and real-time monitoring of extraneous water in sewer networks and is already reducing service failures. Therefore, reducing energy consumption also represents a potential saving on operational expenditure.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

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. The team aim to make the patch completely biodegradable, and capable of nourishing the soil once it reaches the end of its period of usefulness.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Indoor air quality specialist and Radon expert Airthings, was among firms offering insight into the problem: “Radon enters a building as the air pressure within a building is usually lower than the pressure in the soil and rocks around the building’s foundation. It enters through a process referred to as advection.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Large pieces of plastic can break down into nanosized particles that often find their way into soil and water. Jelinek’s team at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have previously developed an e-nose for monitoring the presence of bacteria by adsorbing and sensing the unique combination of gas vapour molecules that they release.

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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

MARCH 15, 2023

The creators of the new Plant Atlas say it is “the most powerful statement ever produced on the state of our wild and naturalised plants“ Thousands of botanists from the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) 1 have spent the last twenty years collecting data on changes in the British and Irish flora.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes. A credible strategy, led by Defra, and integrated with the challenges for how we use our land and our soil, is needed. And they have proposed policies to do it.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

Ecopetrol Columbia-based energy company Ecopetrol won a Lighthouse Award for the development of a pilot agri-energy wastewater reuse project. We would not be here without the startups and innovators themselves and we always invite others to join them.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

According to Preisendanz, this practice provides an opportunity for the soil to act as an additional filter for PFAS, reducing the immediate impact of direct discharge of PFAS to surface water, as would typically happen following traditional wastewater treatment. Watson, professor of soil science.

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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. Soil and biodiversity.

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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

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, 2023

” “By harnessing the power of nature alongside our traditional flood defences, we can not only help keep communities safer, but also create wildlife havens and tackle the climate emergency.” Our country faces several major environmental threats and we cannot solve them one at a time,” said the statement.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2020, AB InBev successfully restored more than 4km; throughout 2021, they have completed restoration of another 10km, which is currently generating more than one million cubic meters per year in the Rimac basin, a critical potable water source for the Lima and Callao regions. hl/hl, saving around 500 million litres of water a year.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

The initiative will work with farmers to create stores of water – both in soil “sponges” as well as lakes and ponds – that can be “re-charged” through wet weather, then drawn on through ever-more common dry seasons, to the benefit of either the farmers themselves, or local communities. A full list of the winners is included below.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

With their wide deployment and persistence, it’s no surprise PFAS collect in landfills – one of a number of acute pressure points in the environment where there is an elevated risk of their finding their way into soil, water and air. Compliance will require monitoring down to miniscule levels, including 4ng/L for both PFOA and PFOS.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Their activities prevent soil being washed away after rainfall – their dams filter water, cleaning it and reducing pollution downstream. On Monday 8th February two beavers were released at an enclosed site in Dorset following feasibility studies and careful monitoring to look at the difference they could make to an enclosed wetland.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

Their groundbreaking achievements were discovered by the Brave Blue World Foundation during the research phase of its powerful documentary, Brave Blue World , which aims to drive positive change in water. It has also achieved a 50% reduction in energy savings. Salesforce. The Glenmorangie Distillery.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Among other areas, biochars may have an important role to play in clean-up operations at sites where hazardous chemicals have been spilled in soil and water. However, in our study, the process is monitored every step of the way and what we are interested in, is the porosity that is being created.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Just a week earlier, Louisiana state regulators approved a preliminary air permit for a proposed renewable diesel unit at a refinery run by the pipeline firm’s parent company, PBF Energy. Detail of sheen on the surface of one of the ponds impacted after a pipeline owned by PBF Energy ruptured, shown on January 22.

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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

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. It also investigated how to measure plastics levels in composts, digestates and soils, and what process interventions are available to reduce it. Nano niggles.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Officers examining the bales of waste discovered electrical and electronic equipment, used nappies, sanitary towels, food contaminated packaging, food, dog excrement, wood, textiles, shoes, clothing, jewellery, aerosol cans, toys, glass, plastic food and drinks containers and cans. Details of the case.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Stephanie Metzger, Policy Advisor at the Royal Society of Chemistry, said: “Here in the UK, we monitor for a long list of PFAS, but we’re lagging far behind the US and the EU when it comes to the amount allowed in our drinking water and what is considered healthy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Despite these ‘severe’ threats to health and ecosystems, the authors underscored that there is inadequate infrastructure, investment and regulatory effort for making dye usage more sustainable, or for treatment of dye-containing wastewater. 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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