Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. “If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 10, 2020

Fungi are living organisms that support the ecosystem of the entire planet. Together, these fungi species are unlocking solutions for cleaning up the environment, developing greener construction and product materials and contributing significant medicinal benefits. What are fungi? Fungi are basically the digestive tract of the planet.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you simply want somewhere to grow your own food, or to work with your hands in the soil, there are other possible options, so it is worth asking: Is there already a community garden near you? Community gardens ensure access to good-quality, local, and organic food. The more biodiverse an ecosystem, the more resilient it will be.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 27, 2020

Applying science and healthcare principles to soil wellness can help our planet Poornima Param… Thu, 08/27/2020 – 01:00 Basic human health principles tell us that we should diagnose before we treat and that we should test before we diagnose. Undoubtedly, soil is foundational to human life, yet we know very little about the soil itself.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Larger enrollments from minority and low-income populations will provide important services to measure health status, deliver more affordable purchase of medicines and therapies, and better document acute and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular and other health endpoints that can directly connect to environmental exposures.

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Grist

MARCH 22, 2024

Josep Lago / AFP via Getty Images At the end of the plastic life cycle, incinerators and landfills can release PFAS, dioxins, PCBs, and other endocrine disruptors as air or soil pollution — some of which may contaminate nearby food supplies. Volunteers pick up plastic nurdles at a beach in Tarragona, Spain.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Land is under growing pressure from human activity and climate change is adding to these pressures, according to a report released by the IPCC on 8 August.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms vital to soil health and food production. Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. At the same time as taking out more than is sustainable, we also pollute the soil, water and air. Cultural, spiritual, education and recreation needs.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Two Medicine River, sacred to the Amskapi Pikuni, the Blackfeet, rushes nearby. They’ve been trained to pinpoint mink and otter droppings, or scat, which can contain toxins because of processes called bioaccumulation and biomagnification, when substances move through the food chain and get concentrated in organisms.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. Stephens told me that fire, wildlife, and soil ecologists at Blodgett sometimes recommended removing large white fir trees.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

Once they find their way to the bloodstream, they stick to blood cells as they course through every organ in the body. Mitchell, from the Baylor School of Medicine in Houston. If the levels are high and widespread,” he said, “we could have a serious problem.” The next day, 3M executives met with another expert, J.R. the lawyer asks.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2020

By contrast, the lush rainforests to the south of the Sahara have trees that both block the wind and hold on to the soil with their roots, keeping all the muck from taking to the air. Graham Carlos of the Indiana University School of Medicine and Eskenazi Health. “We Tropical storms derive their energy from wet air.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

The key insight driving our investment thesis is that for thousands of years animals have been employed as a technology to provide valuable products and services including transportation, communications, energy, labor, clothing, medicine, and of course food. The market demands them, but it shows little allegiance to their mode of production.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. Over the next few decades, as more people got sick with Coccidioidomycosis and died, doctors figured out that the organism causing this disease often entered victims through the lungs.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Larger enrollments from minority and low-income populations will provide important services to measure health status, deliver more affordable purchase of medicines and therapies, and better document acute and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular and other health endpoints that can directly connect to environmental exposures.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

Larger enrollments from minority and low-income populations will provide important services to measure health status, deliver more affordable purchase of medicines and therapies, and better document acute and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular and other health endpoints that can directly connect to environmental exposures.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. Despite being told after Sandy that his organization couldn't grow, he said, "We're still here.

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Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

What it also left, in Tsai’s words, was an opportunity for a sort of “geological sample” — evidence that oil and chemicals still lingered in the soil and in the creeks six months after a catastrophic derailment. He sent it to a Eurofins lab in Cleveland to test for the presence of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

RADIOACTIVITY = ORGANIC RICHNESS = GAS.” They grow or forage some of their own food and medicine, including ginseng and morel mushrooms, and fish and hunt for trout and deer. To put it simply,” the report states. Pennsylvania regulators have found radium in brine of the Marcellus formation at levels thousands of times above the U.S.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. “If you don’t own anything, you’re not changing nothing.”

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Unsustainable

MARCH 29, 2020

Likewise, pharmaceutical companies, in the quest for billion-dollar profits, focused most of their R&D on the big sellers: heart medicines, painkillers and male impotence drugs. Regenerative agriculture , on the other hand, is based on farming methods like no-till that do not disturb the soil.

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