Grist

MAY 14, 2024

Mathur, a plant geneticist, leads the Plant Breeding & Genetics Laboratory for the Joint FAO/IAEA Centre of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, a collaboration between two United Nations agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Agriculture 79

Agriculture Climate change Resilience Organic 79

Grist

JULY 19, 2020

For example, a drought from 2007 until 2010 is considered one of the main factors leading to the civil war in Syria. It takes inorganic carbon dioxide and turns it into organic carbon. It’s not just about food. Food shortages are an important driver of social problems. It’s an ancient enzyme, more than 3.5 And a team of U.S.

Agriculture 84

Agriculture Climate change Soil North America 84

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 23, 2019

To which our organization, Clean Energy Canada, so often replies: actually, the clean-energy sector is bigger and broader than that. Our relatively clean grid means the things we build on Canadian soil have a lower carbon footprint than they might elsewhere. million cars off the road.

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Power grid Natural gas Government Fossil fuels 45

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas. What about golf?

Soil 28

Soil Stormwater Education Medicine 28

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. B Analytics aggregates data from B Corps and other impact-focused organizations to provide comparative analysis and best practices.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Organic 78

Grist

JULY 6, 2024

WebsEdge / YouTube In the early stages of developing the initiative, Keith helped the university organize an event with researchers working on topics that could fall under the umbrella of climate systems engineering. Blueprints for the canceled solar geoengineering experiment David Keith was working on before he left Harvard University.

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Solar Energy Monitor Carbon-negative Climate change Cooling 117

Grist

DECEMBER 23, 2024

New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earths land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion of excessively salty soils. They also promote erosion and the salinization of water and soil. That requires farmers to rely upon brackish water, increasing soil salinity.

Soil 145

Soil Agriculture Climate change Africa 145

Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

But before bulldozers started digging into corn and soybean fields to widen the ditch, dozens of people and organizations had to get on board with the plan. And the best way to approach landowners was through the Kosciusko County Soil and Water Conservation District, a local agency run by a board of farmers and residents.

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Soil Pollution Government Agriculture 145

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. Mike Ferner, a retired union organizer and former Toledo councilman, leads Advocates for a Clean Lake Erie. Jamie Smith Hopkins / Center for Public Integrity.

Agriculture 132

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 132

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Calling a planned petrochemical manufacturing complex in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” a “textbook case of environmental racism,” 175 organizations from around the world sent a letter to financial institutions Tuesday urging them not to fund, underwrite, or invest in the project, which could cost up to $12 billion. .

Plastics 82

Plastics Pollution Seafood Soil 82

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Silvopasture could make for healthier soil — and keep cattle alive during sweltering summers.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 145

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Standing alone in the open field, the solar-powered equipment Sheffer shows me could be mistaken for some sort of high-tech scarecrow, but it has a far different job: to monitor and measure the CO 2 in the soil at this farming operation and research center in New York’s Hudson Valley. . But in a way, it doesn’t matter. Photo courtesy of C.J.

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