Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2025

Microplastics (plastic particles under 5mm) are a widespread environmental pollutant, with more than 120trillion estimated to have accumulated in the global ocean. Upon entering the environment, microplastics are rapidly colonized by diverse microbial communities, forming what is known as the Plastisphere.

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Plastics Microplastics Pollution Waste 179

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

Surrey researcher Yendle Barwise assembling one of the pollution monitors. If you’re trying to take pollution out of the air, choose evergreen trees with smaller leaves. They studied which caught the most particles of pollution and which best allowed the rain to wash those particles safely to the ground.

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Pollution 351

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Environmental and engineering consultancy Ricardo is applying its expertise in air quality measurement to enable local authorities across Greater Manchester to monitor the contribution to air pollution from wood burning stoves, raise public awareness of its risks, and reduce its impact on people’s health.

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Pollution Carbon-negative Health Ozone 361

GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2020

How efforts to flatten the curve of COVID-19 have reflected air quality in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Pollution Transportation 545

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2019, University of Utah atmospheric scientists, the Environmental Defense Fund and other partners added a new tool to their quiver of air quality monitors: two Google Street View cars, Salt Lake Valley’s roving sentinels that would detect hyper-local air pollution hotspots. from dust or ash; and methane, primarily from the landfill.

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Pollution Methane Policy Carbon 278

Energy Storage News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Battery storage is playing an active role in helping New York City retire its fleet of peaker power plants, with around 700MW of its most polluting power generation assets already fully retired.

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Pollution Batteries 318

TechXplore

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

As more waterways contend with algae blooms and pollution caused by minerals from agricultural runoff and industrial manufacturing processes, new methods to remove pollutants like phosphate, copper and zinc are emerging across fields.

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Stormwater Pollution Agriculture 219

TechXplore

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Water pollution is a growing concern globally, with research estimating that chemical industries discharge 300–400 megatonnes (600–800 billion pounds) of industrial waste into bodies of water each year.

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Pollution Waste Waste Energy 271

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Seaweed’s benefits as part of a superfood are well-sung but its potential to tackle the destabilization of the Earth’s natural nitrogen and phosphorous cycles deserve more attention.

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Pollution 402

GreenBiz

APRIL 23, 2024

plastic treaty talks begin their crucial next-to-last round, how can we ensure the opportunity to end plastic pollution progresses in a way that is ambitious, effective and fair? As the U.N.

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Plastics Pollution 283

TechXplore

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In Vietnam's heavily polluted capital Hanoi, teenage taxi driver Phung Khac Trung rides his electric motorbike through streets jammed with two-wheelers belching toxic fumes.

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Pollution Electricity Energy Energy 214

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

The source of pollutants in rivers and freshwater lakes can now be identified using a comprehensive new water quality analysis, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge and Trent University, Canada. For example, water analysis of Lake Erie in Canada revealed high levels of phosphorus pollution.

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Pollution Organic Agriculture Health 264

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Five startups vying for exposure and support at Bloom 23 made rapid pitches for their tech to protect nature and boost biodiversity.

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Pollution Plastics Biodiversity Startups 389

GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2024

A Ceres report highlights what the beverage industry can do to better mitigate water quality impacts.

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Pollution 414

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

His current focus is on the impact kitchen-based air pollution has on vulnerable communities and the impact green-blue-gray infrastructure (such as trees, lakes and stormwater ) has on mitigating air pollution and excessive heat in towns and cities.” The award is named after Dr Arie J.

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Pollution Climate change Stormwater Health 278

TechXplore

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Hydrogen-burning internal combustion engines offer great promise in the fight against climate change because they are powerful without emitting any earth-warming carbon. They can power heavy-duty trucks and buses and are suited for off-road and agricultural equipment and backup power generators, providing cleaner alternatives to diesel engines.

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Hydrogen Pollution Climate change Agriculture 336

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

Environment Agency Executive Director John Leyland said: “These new enforcement powers will be an extra tool in our armoury to hold polluters to account.”

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Pollution Government Investment Law 246

GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2022

Kellogg is working with rice farmers to introduce a new sustainable flooding method that would substantially decrease emissions but also protect bird habitat.

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Methane Pollution Sustainability 334

TechCrunch: Climate

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Ammonia may conjure thoughts of off odors, but the world is entirely dependent on the smelly stuff as a fertilizer and for use in myriad other industries. Problem is, nearly all the ammonia produced today is heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

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Pollution Fossil fuels Electricity Carbon 116

GreenBiz

JULY 25, 2023

PepsiCo, McDonald's, Nestlé and others were also featured among the "Dirty Dozen" report on plastic litter by Surfers Against Sewage.

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Plastics Pollution 299

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 28, 2025

Airbus Takes Hydrogen Aviation to New Heights at the 2025 Summit At its highly anticipated annual summit, Airbus reaffirmed its determination to shape the future of aviation with cutting-edge hydrogen technology.

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Hydrogen Aviation Pollution Technology 121

GreenBiz

APRIL 26, 2024

Consumer packaged goods companies, chemical producers and the oil industry are in the crosshairs of watchdogs in Ottawa.

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Pollution Plastics Packaging 344

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2025

Researchers have mapped soil pollution at an unprecedented scale, finding that more than 17% of cropland is affected by dangerous levels of metals such as arsenic, lead, and cadmium. billion people living in polluted regions, experts warn that toxic metals in soil can enter the food chain, harming biodiversity and exacerbating poverty.

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Energy Monitor Soil Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

GreenBiz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Google Maps functionality harnesses AI and aerial imagery to help businesses and cities plan solar deployments and tackle air pollution.

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Pollution 438

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The world is off track to tackle plastic pollution. Here's what business must do now, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

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Plastics Waste Waste Pollution 435

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

One of the world's biggest contributors to the plastic crisis has yet to pass meaningful federal regulation on plastic pollution, but a new bill may change that.

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Plastics Pollution 437

GreenBiz

JANUARY 16, 2024

The company has published its strategy for ‘zero materials waste and zero pollution.’

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Pollution Waste Waste Carbon 408

GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2024

Fresh from the treaty talks in Ottawa, two new reports outline a path forward in the fight against plastic pollution.

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Plastics Pollution 362

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, is home to over 200 plastic and petrochemical plants — and some of the most polluted air in the U.S.

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Plastics Pollution 408

GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2022

Some transit agencies are saying, "This bus is perfectly good — except for all the pollution" and doing something about it.

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Pollution Electricity 387

GreenBiz

JUNE 27, 2024

Sustainability experts view climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water scarcity, food security and water pollution as increasingly severe challenges, according to the latest GlobeScan/ERM survey.

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Sustainability Biodiversity Climate change Pollution 350

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Pollution, poverty and race collide in many other disadvantaged communities across California — and the country — and some argue that the state’s climate policies haven’t helped. The overall "cap" lowers every year, forcing polluters to reduce their emissions or purchase allowances from others who do. As the U.S.

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Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 407

TechXplore

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Wind turbines and photovoltaics (PVs) are becoming increasingly widespread worldwide, which could contribute to reducing air pollution caused by fossil fuel emissions. To produce energy, however, these renewable energy solutions rely on specific weather conditions (e.g., the presence of wind and sufficient hours of sunlight).

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Pollution 363

NRDC onEarth

JUNE 3, 2024

The New York Healthy Homes Right to Know Act would require signage and labels that detail the health risks of using a gas stove.

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Pollution Health 218

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Using satellite data, researchers found that poor communities of color are highly exposed to toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution, largely due to diesel truck traffic.

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Pollution 366

GreenBiz

MARCH 27, 2024

Date/Time: April 30, 2024 (11AM-12PM ET / 8-9AM PT) As the global UN Plastics Treaty enters the final stages of negotiations, organizations must rethink single-use plastics, evaluate how to operationalize circularity, and irrevocably shift business models.

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Plastics Pollution Organic 226

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sponsored: The tech industry is far from the biggest polluter, but it’ll be a key leader in solving the most pressing issue of our time: saving our planet.

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