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Climate change is making poison ivy stronger and itchier

Grist

It can grow in partial shade and doesn’t give a damn about soil moisture as long as it’s not growing in a desert. Poison ivy might love soil warming even more than it loves CO2.” By comparison, the other plants she studies at the Harvard Forest only grow between 10 and 20 percent faster in warmer soil.

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Against the grain

Envirotec Magazine

Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. It also investigated how to measure plastics levels in composts, digestates and soils, and what process interventions are available to reduce it. References.

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Recycling firm fined £20k following illegal export of household waste from Scotland

Envirotec Magazine

Saica Natur UK Limited pled guilty on 21 September 2021 at Airdrie Sheriff Court to transporting waste collected from households (code Y46) to China in contravention of Article 36(1) of the Waste Shipment Regulation (EC1013/2006) and Regulation 23 of the Transfrontier Shipment of Waste Regulations 2007 (the Waste Shipment Regulations).

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Co-op to ban peat-based compost from stores to help 'prune' emissions

Business Green

The Co-op halved its greenhouse gas emissions between 2006 and 2016, and has since adopted science-based climate goals in line with limiting global average temperature rise to 1.5C, including targets to reduce its emissions by a further 50 per cent and reduce its supply chain emissions by 11 per cent by 2025.

Retail 101
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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

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. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. The southeastern U.S.,

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

Grist

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon. And the land began to sink.

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Pricing the priceless

Business Green

There is something faintly ridiculous about any attempt to suggest clean air or forests or soils are worth £xbn a year, when without them civilisation is essentially doomed. Philosophical debates about the merits and pitfalls of putting a price on nature are unlikely to be resolved any time soon.