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Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

As the economy and agriculture begin to build back with the gradual easing of the COVID -19 restrictions, we need to support a recovery for farmers that puts the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at its core.”.

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EV charging beyond the grid: Forecasts from a new report

Envirotec Magazine

Medium and heavy-duty haulage, construction, agriculture, and mining are all under pressure to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and going electric is an increasingly attractive solution. Passenger cars are not the only sectors where electrification is taking off.

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Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain

GreenBiz

Food and Agriculture Organization. Even before Dang was infiltrating the foodservice industry of the North Atlantic region, he had a deep understanding of the agricultural supply chain from growing up on a small Connecticut farm. Because source reduction has such strong economic benefits, the sustainability aspect gets to tag along.

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The Risk of Preterm Birth Rises Near Gas Flaring, Reflecting Deep-rooted Environmental Injustices in Rural America

DeSmogBlog

Through the southern reaches of Texas, communities are scattered across a flat landscape of dry brush lands, ranches and agricultural fields. Tags: environmental racism flaring Eagle Ford Shale public health Read time: 6 mins By Jill Johnston , University of Southern California and Lara Cushing , University of California, Los Angeles.

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How To Make Your Home More Environmentally Friendly

The Environmental Blog

Permaculture is the concept of small scale agriculture inspired by nature, that helps rewild your area and reduce your carbon footprint by growing fruit and veg at home rather than purchasing it. Even bigger things like boilers and kitchen appliances can usually be upgraded to be more efficient, but they usually have a larger price tag.

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The Maintenance Needs Of Biodiesel

The Environmental Blog

Instead, it is often blended with diesel and tagged based on the amount of diesel it’s mixed with. Also, Car Talk reported that a study conducted by the Department of Energy and Agriculture proved biodiesel reduced net carbon dioxide emissions by 78 percent. billion gallons in 2013. Biodiesel is rarely used in its pure form.

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Unique monitoring project will study the seas around Ireland and Western Scotland

Envirotec Magazine

Listening stations from Malin Head – Ireland’s most northerly point – to the island of Islay in Scotland will record transmissions from a variety of mobile marine species tagged by the project’s scientists. Funding for the €4.6m The territory covered by the project.