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'Utmost importance': Worsening soil pollution among planet's biggest challenges, UN warns

Business Green

Global assessment of soil pollution warns of major threat to food supplies unless urgent action is taken to accelerate adoption of sustainable farming practices and tackle industrial waste. The report highlights how soils are being damaged on multiple fronts thanks to a combination of unsustainable farming and industrial practices.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed Inc. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. The fear of failure is a big deal,” he said.

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Agriculture, Innovation, & Sustainability • 11/10/22

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Virginia Lamb, Groundwork Education and Consulting, is an Environmental Educator with over 25 years’ experience in recycling, composting, soil health and organic gardening. She has a BA in Environmental Studies from Stockton University, an MS in Soil Science from UMass Amherst, and is a NJ Certified Recycling Professional.

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How a Climate Corps Fellow is Strengthening Environmental Resilience with Chubb

EDF + Business

Climate Corps does this by plac ing talented fellows at leading organizations to advance sustainability goals and deliver tangible results , such as recent fellow Carter Purcell , who worked with Chubb on a groundbreaking new project. Our mission is simple but powerful: to train and mobilize the future of the green workforce.

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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. A prior Harvard study showed that woolly adelgid could take an 8 percent bite out of northeastern forests’ carbon sequestering capabilities between 2000 and 2040. times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. A systematic review based on multiple studies concluded that emissions “differ considerably per diet, with a vegan diet having the lowest CO2eq production per 2000 kcal consumed.”

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed Inc. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. The fear of failure is a big deal,” he said.

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