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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.

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Water-to-Air Ratio – GreenRoofs101

Green Roof Technology

In some cases an irrigation system (temporary or permanent) or enhanced drainage system should be considered to reduce stress conditions on the plants and to improve soil biology. Soil/Media extension layer (often described as drainage layer) to mimic natural soil profiles and avoid anaerobe conditions in rooting zone.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. Epochs are typically stretches of several million years designated by clues left in the soil, rocks, and fossils.

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Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use

DeSmogBlog

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks.

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Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use

DeSmogBlog

A recently published book by Still Burning , a network campaigning against coal imports to Europe and neocolonialism, explores the links between our addiction to coal and the deteriorating ecological and social conditions of communities living near mines supplying European power stations and steelworks.

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Innovative drilling tech at the forefront of Finland geothermal project

ThinkGeoEnergy

Using the GMTracker DTH data-logging software, well drilling data collected, monitored in real-time, analyzed, and reported. The data-logger automatically measures soil composition and records rock socket connections and rock fractures, so it can also be used as a reporting tool. All operations are protected by a safety radar system.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do?