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Government is “passing water pollution buck to the car industry”, experts warn

Envirotec Magazine

The Government acknowledged the serious and growing impacts of poisonous particle pollution from brake, tyre and road surface wear on the environment and human health – but diverted attention away from the immediate and urgent need to stop it entering directly into rivers and streams, water quality specialists have warned.

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Call to ramp up joint action to get London’s rivers ‘climate-ready’

Envirotec Magazine

The public can get involved in citizen science projects to monitor the health of their rivers in order to gather evidence on the issues and opportunities for water quality improvements. Flood plains in London are currently home to 1.42 million people, as well as £321bn-worth of homes.

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4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects

GreenBiz

As Microsoft builds data centers in Iowa, it is also investing in urban forestry projects to bring an environmental and health benefit to the neighborhood as well. City Forest Credits worked with scientists to quantify the exact health benefits of each tree, creating a measurement scheme similar to carbon removal metrics. "We

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Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem

Envirotec Magazine

In addition, some health services have takeback programmes for expired or unused medication, preventing them from being flushed down the drain or disposed of improperly. Strong partnerships between governments, academia, industry, and NGOs are essential to share knowledge, develop effective solutions, and implement best practices.

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Striving for environmental balance: nutrient neutrality to futureproof the development pipeline

Envirotec Magazine

By Wendy Furgusson, Associate, Environment and Health, Ramboll With Natural England’s recent changes to planning policy causing a reduction in the number of new homes built from 240,000 a year in 2018-19 to a projected 111,000 by 2025, awareness of nutrient pollution as a problem is becoming more widespread.

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Biospherian will share water stories from ‘Spaceship Earth’

Envirotec Magazine

Nelson is a co-founding director of the Institute of Ecotechnics (US/UK) which set its goal at developing theory and practice of how to better integrate human technologies and activities with restoration of ecological health. The institute was a key part of the Biosphere 2 research team.

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Managing complexity

Envirotec Magazine

They are also, in part, a response to stricter performance targets, changing government legislation, and increased public scrutiny of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) releasing sewage and stormwater into rivers and seas during heavy rainfall. The plans are expected to be public-facing and comparable between companies.