Grist

JULY 14, 2020

But conservation areas are often vulnerable to illegal logging, poaching, mining, and other activities that threaten biodiversity. Sound has long been used by soundscape ecologists to assess biodiversity and other metrics of ecosystem health. How can land managers detect these kinds of human impacts on protected ecosystems?

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

As butterflies and moths are an important indicator of the health of the environment, a reduction in their numbers is a cause for serious concern. Though worryingly, 2021 also saw the lowest average number of butterflies logged since the event began thirteen years ago.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

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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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 18, 2021

“So, the EDT is an ideal tool to support the theme for this year’s Clean Air Day: protecting children’s health from air pollution,” said a press release. This is because the EDT contains an advanced electrochemical sensor that logs readings and transmits data to a tablet or mobile phone running the EDT App.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Industrial logging-dependent communities are some of the most poverty stricken places in the South. Danielle Purifoy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 23, 2022

These are used by epidemiologists to determine the aerosol sources that are most detrimental to human health.” For the improvement of air quality to progress more efficiently in the future, regulators could lower the limit values specifically for those aerosols most harmful to health more than for others, the researchers argue.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In a smart grid predictive maintenance use case, LWM2M plays a crucial role in tracking essential telemetry and device data, including real-time energy consumption, power quality parameters, equipment health and status, fault logs, load profiles and battery health for energy storage systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In September, Thames21 volunteers logged 27,400 wet wipes at Battersea Bridge in just two days. The Thames Tideway Tunnel will be a major boost to the health of the capital’s waterway, but everyone can play their part right now, by avoiding plastic wet wipes and ensuring that they flush only the three ps – pee, poo and paper.”.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

Leading companies, including tech firms Microsoft and Akamai, are expanding their focus into new realms — ones that explore the intersection of sustainability and human health, or that allow employees to take action to reduce their own impact at home and in the communities where they live.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

For gas detection, the use of data-driven solutions, automatically identifies patterns from non-zero gas readings logged by personal wearables and area gas monitors. Data science has fast become a crucial tool across industrial workplaces.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The robust data set reports on trends in forest areas including size, species, health, growth, mortality, removals and carbon sequestrations. According to soil health experts such as Haya from UC Berkeley, there are a lot of biological ways carbon can be lost from the soil. Soil carbon sequestration can be lost easier and quicker.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Dubbed Alloy, the software system will enable English Heritage to monitor its trees and woodlands to assess risks arising from age, damage or disease in order to boost the safety of staff and visitors at its historical sites, as well as the health of the landscape, the charity said.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

We must give more consideration to the role of the forest in human health , animal health and environmental health. The researchers used data from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization, among others, to determine correlations among diseases, populations and forest cover.

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Eco-Business

JULY 30, 2021

Myanmar’s Indigenous people have faced the loss of their lands, community forests, and deteriorating health conditions due to illegal logging and mining. But in the face of political turmoil, environmental activists are fearful of arrests.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

CETCI also manufactures fixed gas detection systems, controllers and transmitters that are deployed to monitor hazardous gases; protecting health and safety in confined spaces and indoor environments. These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health. A car park installation.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

solar market registered pandemic-related pain in the second quarter of 2020, as expected, after logging its highest first quarter of growth ever at the outset of the year. And ultimately, many top solar states, such as Florida, Arizona and Texas, are led by conservative governors.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

We must give more consideration to the role of the forest in human health , animal health and environmental health. The researchers used data from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization, among others, to determine correlations among diseases, populations and forest cover.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In mid-September, the California Air Resources Board logged the highest PM2.5 This year's wildfires and the corresponding smoke have disrupted life along the West Coast, requiring mass evacuations, exacerbating existing health conditions of residents and claiming the lives of 28 people.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

With complete visibility of the mobile operation Aqualogic has also improved health and safety for lone workers using automated risk assessments and real-time tracking, and the mobile app, called JobWatch , allows engineers to automatically share photographs, condition reports and usage data. “One

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Business Green

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Footbolt campaign kicked off in time for the League One club's first home game of the season on 6 August, for which Bolt encouraged supporters to log their steps that day in the YuMuuv team wellness challenge app. And if the community meets the collective target amount of steps by the end of the season, which has been set at 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

But that does not come before health and safety of tenants.” But in the past few weeks, customers have been logging in far more often than usual, Mendelson said. “Certainly when you’re working with building controls, it’s not a quick fix. You’re working with third parties, with vendors.

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Business Green

APRIL 25, 2021

Cameron Hawkins, head of energy and environment at NHS Property Services, reveals how work is advancing fast to slash emissions across one of the world's largest health systems. In October last year, the NHS became the first national health service in the world to commit to becoming a net zero national health system.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Their vision is for sustainable places where the natural environment is healthy, communities are involved in their area, health and well-being is improved for all and resource use is responsible. You can now log in or sign up to catch up on demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

The intensity of logging has been increasing across Europe in recent years, correlating with a growing demand for forest biomass energy, and the same is happening elsewhere, including in the Southeastern US , the world’s biggest wood pellet producing region.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

If left unmitigated, the climate crisis will start to adversely affect humans further by disrupting food supplies, causing property damage, burdening economies, inciting population displacement and compounding the magnitude of public health issues. NOAA + NASA Image via Angie Agostino. See the original post:Â .

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2020

But Giles Bolton, responsible sourcing director of Tesco, said the risk that the legislation could enable increased logging remained. The Amazon, which has a critical role in slowing climate change and regulating planetary health given the vast amount of greenhouse gas it absorbs, is also home to a 750,000-strong Indigenous population.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

These tiny particles, which readily absorb toxins such as DDT and flame retardants, are often ingested by marine life and can potentially have negative effects on human health through the food chain. The prototype sensor has been tested in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the technology is expected to be available via open-sourcing.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

The global pandemic has reiterated the fact that vulnerable countries are exposed to various types of risk - climatic, geophysical, economic and health-related - and that vulnerability is systemic and interconnected," said Germanwatch's Laura Schaefer. "It It is therefore important to address these interconnections.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

They are also concerned that the facilities could harm local communities, some of which face high health burdens. Logging and road building in any kind of primary forests is associated with increasing fire risk,” she said. Fire is the latest Trojan Horse for industry to get into natural forests they otherwise might not get to violate.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2021

“By charging them, we can both seek to hold them criminally accountable and send a clear message to others about how seriously we take protecting the environment and public health.”. A Pipeline Plagued by Problems. Attorney General Shapiro said that Energy Transfer dramatically underreported the extent of its spills.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

per cent boost to GDP even before you consider the harder to quantify benefits that would come in the form of improved health outcomes, reduced climate impacts, and enhanced industrial competitiveness. But one way to help break the current political and policy log jam is to keep reiterating that this transition can be done, and is being done.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Retrofitting homes improves health and wellbeing, addresses fuel poverty, reduces emissions and sustains jobs. Anyone who has lived in a draughty, badly insulated home will understand how important this is, not just for comfort but to limit soaring energy bills. There are no down-sides.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

However, there is a growing body of thought on how best to measure and minimise environmental impacts, before then developing strategies that can actually enhance the health of life on land. The health of waterways and land are inextricably linked. You can't separate them. The place itself can bring people together to act.".

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