Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Supermarket claims fava beans could help promote healthy soils and cut emissions by locking in soil carbon and replacing some of the soy used in animal feed. Separately, the supermarket also this week announced that it intends to make all its tea bags compostable via food caddies by this summer.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Both [environments] work because the soil temperature, at these depths, remains relatively stable throughout the year and, in our case, generally lower than the external temperature,” said Professor Luciane Cleonice Durante, Project Coordinator. One environment uses water as the working fluid, while the other one uses air.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Calculating the carbon footprint of a farming system is a complex metric involving a large number of indicators including what kind of fuel is used on the farm, how the soil is cultivated, the style of land management and the types of animals and crops being farmed.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

The fund seeks to focus on projects in northern Africa, the east coast and west coast of Africa, northern Australia, Indonesia and pockets of North and South America in areas that used to carry trees but are not densely filled with trees due to human degradation or natural erosion.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

The US conservation group claims the Cispatá mangrove forest is the first to have its carbon stores fully calculated and entered into the global carbon market - including both the CO2 stored both in the trees and foliage above ground, and in soils below the water - in an achievement it said could "change the fate of mangroves everywhere".

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2021

South America is often depicted as a lush landscape full of diverse ecosystems. Without columns inside, the interior spaces can include more soil for deep seeding. And once, Colombia was like that. This creates a self-supporting, “structural basket” design where no columns or supports are needed inside.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. Palm oil is a dirty word for many environmentalists.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

“For example, mycelium was used in Chernobyl, is utilised in Rotterdam to clean up soil and some farmers also apply it to make the land healthy again.” The mycelium coffin is absorbed in the soil within 4 to 6 weeks. ” The coffin presents an opportunity for human bodies to feed the earth after their life span.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Valley fever Carried by soil containing the fungus Coccidioides. The disease is also prevalent in Mexico and Central and South America. When drought hits after the rainy season, those rain-fueled spores can get kicked up out of the soil and settle in people’s lungs. “In

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In short, Moreira said Planet imagery lets AMAGGI “generate knowledge for decision-making, through the entire agricultural process — from the time you are preparing the soil until the time you are harvesting.” That reduction in pesticide usage ultimately lessens the environmental impact and improves crop quality.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 10, 2023

Imagine an insatiably thirsty atmosphere that gets so hot and dry that it literally sucks the water right out of crops and the soil. But for now, let’s look at the way we can harness Soil Water Content data to analyze rapid changes in global soil moisture.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

Also, the loss of trees and other vegetation causes soil erosion, which increases the risks for flooding and a host of other problems such as land loss for indigenous people and habitat loss for endemic flora and fauna species. The rainforest’s canopy, for example, regulates temperature, cooling the atmosphere.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In South America, around 71 per cent of rainforest has been replaced by pasture and a further 14 per cent has been lost to the production of animal feed. And with 80 per cent of the world's population facing a threat to their water security , trees play a very significant role in stemming desertification and preventing soil erosion.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

While the UK government claims that the country's emissions have fallen by 41 per cent since 1990, this figure is based on calculations that include only emissions produced on British soil.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

For California-grown flowers, you can look at Bloomcheck , which measures wildlife protection, air and soil quality and impact on workers and community. Rainforest Alliance monitors South America , with more than 1.3 If you’re concerned about sustainable practices in the floral industry, the internet provides a few tools.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Farmers rotate livestock from place to place, allowing soil to hold onto more carbon. Why was it, they wondered, that American agriculture basically ignored trees?

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 25, 2022

The first is that the vast majority of the world’s lithium resource is in South America — primarily in Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia. But most of the lithium reserves are in South America; some in countries that have historically had a spotty relationship with the U.S. As the U.S. Thus, the U.S. Continue U.S.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk. And farmers can increase the climate resilience of their businesses by diversifying crops and livestock, planting trees and busies on fields for shade, and boosting soil health.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

According to a growing body of scientific research, incorporating trees into farmland benefits everything from soil health to crop production to the climate. Farmers rotate livestock from place to place, allowing soil to hold onto more carbon. Why was it, they wondered, that American agriculture basically ignored trees?

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

An expanding library of case studies is now available where projects demonstrate how regenerative agriculture practices improve soil quality, reduce costly fertiliser and pesticide inputs, and ultimately bolster yields. The frustrating thing for us is there is no need for this deforestation or climate pollution. There are 1.6

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The scenes include flooded farms, toppled trees, destroyed piers, swelling lakes, and the runoff water that the state’s dams, reservoirs, and soil couldn’t retain. Heat waves, ice melt, droughts, and wildfires were so pervasive that even parts of South America (currently in winter) experienced the temperature spike.

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