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An enduring threat to water?

Envirotec Magazine

Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large group of emerging contaminants that have been used in a wide array of commercial goods and products since the 1940s. To comprehensivley detect PFAS in products such as firefighting foams and in the environment in soils and waters, the total oxidisable precursor (TOP) assay is required.

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Forest Carbon Diligence: Breaking Down the Validation and Intercomparison Report

Planet Pulse

The report details intercomparisons with an array of independent biomass datasets. The analyses were designed to be reproducible by others, benchmarked with high quality reference data. I refer to this approach as biomimicry: selecting, designing, and training machine learning models to approximate mechanistic ecological models.

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Pushing up the veggies: human composting, coming to an end-of-life facility near you soon

Low Impact

Natural organic reduction, a technique for turning human remains into “soft, beautiful soil” is being billed by its American developers, Recompose , as the greenest of green funerary practices. These come in a bewildering array. Was the deceased a member of the Soil Association? Traditional wood, Madam?

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Spring’s Early Bloom: Farmers’ Adaptations And Keeping Crop Models In Sync

Energy Innovation

farmers are already adapting by planting different crop varieties (or cultivars), diversifying and rotating which crops are grown, shifting planting dates, improving soil health and applying fertilizers, adopting new irrigation practices, trying out new technologies, and investing in crop insurance. Ishtiaque found that U.S.

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Digging into the complex, confusing, and contentious world of soil carbon offsets

Business Green

Jim Giles explores the deep divisions that are shaping the emerging field of soil-based offsets. This week, I'll try to untangle one of the more complex, confusing and contentious aspects of our food systems: the emerging market for soil carbon offsets. A second Young Turk heresy concerns the use of soil sampling.

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Laying Down Our Markers

Elemental Excelerator

While a North Star defines the way toward your destination, you need an array of instruments and maps to ever arrive there. Apply for our next cohort here , refer a company to us here , or explore other opportunities to plug into Elemental Excelerator here. * * *. Interested in working with us?

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Isle de Jean Charles Community Members Moved into the First Federally Funded Resettlement Project in Louisiana Despite Visible Engineering Issues

DeSmogBlog

He feels that the OCD, which he refers to as the “Office of Community Destruction,” often portrays him as a spoiler and that the agency had divided the Tribe since taking over the project. That is why rain is collected under the homes as the soil is subsiding.” But the state scrapped these plans. The land wasn’t prepared right.