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Soil Scout closes seed round to monitor and track soil health

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 9 – Healthy soil is a critical resource for carbon capture and essential to food security. Helsinki-based Soil Scout is among a number of tech startups trying to improve awareness and management of soil health with sensor-enabled analytics platforms.

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Brighton firm to develop new landfill methane emission monitoring intelligence platform

Envirotec Magazine

Recycle2Trade is developing a machine-learning-based data intelligence platform to monitor landfill sites, integrating Internet of Things (IoT) ground detection systems and satellite data from Sentinel-5p and Sentinel-2 missions.

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Gas sensor network provides early wildfire detection

Envirotec Magazine

A large-scale IoT network for the ultra-early detection of wildfires has been launched by environmental startup Dryad Networks. The small sensors attached to trees send alerts over the Silvanet IoT mesh network to a cloud-based monitoring platform, which immediately issues an alert to relevant parties in the case of a fire.

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Vodafone teams up with Defra for digital tree monitoring trial

Business Green

Spearheaded by the Forestry Commission's research agency, Forest Research, the project aims to help build understanding of the health of forests, as well as their potential to store carbon dioxide, it said. Tackling climate change requires radical thinking and our forests will be vital to this," she said.

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Vodafone unveils raft of circular economy services in bid to extend phone life

Business Green

The MyFarmWeb platform unveiled on Thursday aims to provide farmers with a means to store, visualise, and view information gathered via agricultural Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and other data sources in the field.

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2022 Decarbon8 AgTech funding round open now

E8 Cleantech Angels

Critical issues also include regenerative inputs, carbon emissions, productivity, water quality and scarcity, soil health, crop diversity, labour supply and food supply. crop and animal inputs, including microbiome, breeding, pollinators, and animal health). online platforms, data capture and decision support, sensors and IoT).

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Biomass Energy: Pros and Cons Explained

Hydrogen Fuel News

Despite lower carbon dioxide emissions, the combustion of biomass can release other pollutants, including particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds, which may affect local air quality and raise health concerns.