Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Professor Melinda Mills , Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Demographic Science Unit concludes ‘This study uses existing government data in a novel way to uncover considerable offshoring of vehicle emissions to low- and middle-income countries. Exported vehicles were also 3.3

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In response, a Seattle-based company is tackling the issue of replanting and restoring forestry health in a rather science-fiction way. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, 6,480,861 acres have burned across the United States this year alone as a result of 47,201 wildfires.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 11, 2021

Global design practice Perkins and Will has raised the bar for sustainable campus design with the award-winning Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As reported in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters , boiling and filtering calcium-containing tap water could help remove nearly 90% of the nano- and microplastics present. The authors acknowledged funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

Pete joins Puraffinity from digital printing technology provider Domino Printing Sciences where he was Group Fluids Operations Director responsible for Domino’s global fluids manufacturing operations, including plants, in the UK, US, India and China.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The University of Strathclyde has been awarded a share of £1 million, delivered by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), part of UK Research and Innovation. Processing nuclear waste is an enormous challenge for human civilisation.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Unpacking Packaging: The Nuances of Material Health. How can businesses balance material health, regulatory compliance and public perception when selecting packaging materials? The health and safety implications of materials used in packaging has become a growing concern for consumers, brands and retailers. Holly Secon.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The process, which the researchers said can be accomplished in about 10 minutes, is the subject of a study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This system can provide an early warning of heavy metal contamination to safeguard human health and ecosystems.” In addition to proving that bacteria like E.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2022

A perspective article by researchers from Stockholm University and ETH Zurich, published in August in Environmental Science & Technology , suggests that environmental contamination by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) defines a separate planetary boundary and that this boundary has been exceeded.

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2021

Fewer have set science-based targets, as those targets come with a bit more scrutiny. Sciencebasedtargets.org reports on its website, "More than 1,000 businesses are working with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce their emissions in line with climate science. Science-based Targets. Sunset, not sell.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The findings highlight the broad utility of wastewater surveillance as a tool for monitoring the effects of human health on water quality and ecosystem health. Importantly, our study highlights the opportunity that wastewater surveillance provides to understand the effects of human health on water quality and ecological health.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

. “Funded access to cutting-edge R&D and expertise has accelerated our capacity to use cutting-edge materials science and creative engineering to benefit human health and the environment.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2021

We realized that we could estimate the health of the overall environment by using birds, as they are an indicator of biodiversity. Short-term targets are valuable, but make sure that your goal-setting reflects the time it takes to make an impact on ecological health, which is measured in decades, not years. million to 425 projects.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

That is why we are proud to partner with Bayer Crop Science , which is leveraging digital technologies to ensure global food security and environmental sustainability in pursuit of their mission “Health for All, Hunger for None.” Our satellites capture images of global farming across the Earth at a near-daily cadence.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 31, 2023

As predicted, Birmingham’s CAZ reduced NO2 pollution, but it has no detectable impact in the concentrations of fine particles, PM2.5 – the air pollutant with greatest health effects.” Professor Zongbo Shi, a senior author who oversaw this work, added: “PM2.5 pollution – are needed to address non-vehicle sources of PM2.5

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Green Living Guy

MAY 25, 2022

The world has advanced in many ways and it applies to the revolution of the health community too. Nowadays, there are diets of all types and kinds which are backed up by science as well. After the pandemic, people have been cautious regarding their immunity, gut health, and overall health being.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can track the health of coral reefs by learning the “song of the reef”, new research seems to show. Coral reefs have a complex soundscape – and even experts have to conduct painstaking analysis to measure reef health based on sound recordings. “This is a really exciting development.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

An accredited online medical conference bringing together some of the country’s top air pollution experts will now be free to attend on 4 October, after event organisers announced they were waiving ticket costs so that more health professionals can benefit from cutting-edge insights to help improve patient outcomes.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the next round of stimulus aid, corporate America needs to stand up for climate science. You may have heard of science-based targets. Today, we are calling for science-based climate advocacy. So what does science-based climate advocacy mean? First, advocate for science-based climate policy. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

The study was published in the American Chemical Society publication Environmental Science & Technology Letters in April. These airborne VOCs can cause respiratory irritation and headaches, among other potential health problems, especially in high concentrations or over long periods of time.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2020

Read time: 9 mins On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization ( WHO ) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019 , which causes the disease COVID -19, was officially a “public health emergency of international concern.” At the time, there were cases confirmed in 19 countries and deaths in China had reached 170.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2023

The data also surprisingly showed that nearly a quarter of water systems found lithium at levels exceeding EPA’s health reference level. Federal, state, and local governing bodies must act swiftly to stop contamination, clean-up polluted water, and safeguard the health of everyday people,” said Erik D.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Our membrane is lightweight, easy to synthesise, and biocompatible, making it suitable for various applications, including thermal energy harvesting, temperature sensing, and biomedical sensors for health monitoring.” The project is dedicated to developing new value-added applications from Irish wood.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In a new study published in SCI’s Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture they have demonstrated how one of the most significant by-products from the winemaking industry can be used in gelatine-based sweets, as a low-cost natural colouring agent with added health benefits.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2022

Environmental scientists, ecologists, and policy experts argue in a letter published on 16 June in Science that the proposed Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework – a new international agreement to protect biodiversity – fails to account for the totality of chemical pollutants that threaten the health of ecosystems worldwide.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The new diagram is intended for use by academics across a range of fields for research and teaching purposes, by government agencies that fund science and landscape management, and in fundamental teaching resources such as textbooks. We showed that this knowledge is vital to improving our scientific understanding of critical zone systems.”

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Unfortunately, these compounds have been shown to negatively impact ecological and human health, particularly because they can bioaccumulate up the food chain and affect development in children, increase risk of cancer, contribute to elevated cholesterol levels, interfere with women’s fertility and weaken immune systems.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

An electronic nose to sniff out soil health that will deliver results to a farmer’s phone in five minutes is being developed by PES Technologies. The electronic nose also provides an objective and consistent measurement of soil health over time. Jim Bailey of PES Technology at the Agri-TechE REAP Conference 2023.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

can save so much money in health and fossil-fuel costs by decarbonizing its economy that it makes financial sense to do it regardless of climate change, according to a report released today by the National Academies of Science.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Separate investigations by Penn State and the National Science Foundation cleared Mann of any wrongdoing. In response, on Monday, Mann talked about his wife and daughter, his love of teaching, mentoring, and supporting other scientists, and his “nerdy” science tendencies. Science works not because of individual genius.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Investing in the ground beneath our feet could have wide-ranging benefits for the environment, animal and human health – as well as moving closer to Net Zero, according to new research. Soil acts as a carbon ‘sink’, locking in GHGs that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Ambition Gap report says that large-scale restoration of nature must sit at the heart of the NZS—to help prevent catastrophic climate breakdown, to sustain our food system and to protect our health and our economy.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Join us for two conversations (February 25 and March 4) about how the pandemic has exacerbated the inequities of community health and wellbeing for frontline communities statewide. Edmund Seto , PhD is a collaborator with Front and Centered, and Associate Professor, University of Washington, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 25, 2020

Urgent action on water security is essential to better prepare societies for future global health crises, say experts at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Northwestern University in the US. Rethinking the value of water as a multi-purpose resource and how to use it sustainably is required urgently.”.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Read time: 28 mins The “Fixing Science” symposium, which is hosted by the National Association of Scholars and kicks off today in Oakland, California, includes credible speakers who want to improve some areas of science hurt by the use of poor statistical methods or making irreproducible claims.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The University will develop a feasibility study and test approaches for the satellite detection of methane emissions at landfill sites, and for the satellite detection of vegetation health changes in the proximity of landfills due to accidents or mismanagement.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Scientists across the country expressed alarm this month over a leaked proposal that details a potential Environmental Protection Agency policy that could significantly limit what research it uses to create public health regulations. That would be a catastrophe.”.

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