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Perseverance touches down on the red planet

Envirotec Magazine

When landing, the Perseverance and Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity will operate around 2000 km from each other. The mission will collect and store a set of rock and soil samples that could be returned to Earth in the future. Meteorological observation network on another planet. You can follow live updates from NASA here.

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Geo-data firm supports complex environmental clean-up project

Envirotec Magazine

A consortium of COWI A/S, RAMBOLL A/S and Geosyntec, contracted by the Region of Southern Denmark to decontaminate the site, engaged Fugro to install 800 injection wells over a total area of 2000 m² using specialist direct push technology, which is lighter and safer than conventional drill technology.

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Geothermal well drilled for energy storage of waste incineration plant in Finland

ThinkGeoEnergy

A 2000-meter geothermal well was drilled for the use of the Lounavoima waste incineration plant in the town of Salo, Finland. With the GM2000 drilling rig now able to drill to a 2000 meters or even deeper, the utilization of geothermal energy can be taken to a much higher level.

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

Grist

Friendly fescue hit the market in 2000, developed by Pennington Seed Inc. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. A former soil conservationist with a degree in agronomy, Hamilton’s mission became to annihilate fescue, on her property and across the fescue belt. The southeastern U.S.,

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How a Climate Corps Fellow is Strengthening Environmental Resilience with Chubb

EDF + Business

Even with my background in agriculture, I leaned into learnings from my agroecology coursework at Michigans School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) to demonstrate the resiliency benefits of sustainable agriculture and soil health practices , s he noted.

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How climate change spurs megadroughts

Grist

Depending on how you look at it, California — and most of the American West — has either entered its third catastrophic drought of the past 10 years, or has been in a constant, unyielding “megadrought” since 2000. The atmosphere is like a sponge: It sucks up water from soils, plants, rivers, oceans, and lakes.

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Scientists urge the U.N. to make environmental destruction a war crime

Grist

As The Guardian reported in 2014, “Researchers have suggested the radiation from these weapons has poisoned the soil and water of Iraq, making the environment carcinogenic.” ” But the idea dates back to the Vietnam War. Local temperatures increased by 9 degrees Fahrenheit.

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