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Group distils wisdom on biochar for climate-smart agriculture

Envirotec Magazine

CSA enhances soil health and builds climate resilience, while aiming to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. We evaluate if this sustainable agricultural practice can serve as a climate-smart agricultural practice in terms of food production, soil health, and environmental sustainability. What is biochar?

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Human Health in the Age of Climate Change: Disease, Nutrition, and Access at a Crossroads

Energy Innovation

The research underscores a trend that scholars have warned of for decades: climate change presents new and intensified challenges for human health. Experts are urging decision-makers headed to COP27 to center human health in this year’s discussions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. a) and RCP8.5 (b).”

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US landfills emit far more methane than previously known

Grist

Amid the commotion, an invisible gas often escapes unnoticed, warming the planet and harming our health: methane. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas created by, among other things, decaying trash , and it often seeps through the soil and plastic covers meant to contain it.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. This factsheet is part of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database project.

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Big Meat Unveils Battle Plans for COP28

DeSmogBlog

The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”. “It used to be that they were caught on the back foot, but now they’re completely prepared.”

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Sustainability Guide For Commercial Landscaping And Lawncare Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Some of the remaining nitrogen is then released as nitrous oxide, which is a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. Inorganic fertilizers also tend to lower soil pH making it more acidic, this causes the microorganisms in the soil to die, which leads to unhealthy soil and as a result unhealthy plants in the long run.

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Event - International Conference on Environmental Pollution and Remediation (ICEPR’20) Call for Papers

Green Market Oracle

The goal of ICEPR’20 is to gather scholars from all over the world to present advances in the relevant fields and to foster an environment conducive to exchanging ideas and information. For more information, in regards to the journal and Avestia Publishing, please visit our website at www.avestia.com.