Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

How they grow coffee will have its own part to play, with intensive farming potentially leading to soil depletion and deforestation. This was certainly true in 2011, when a bitter cold snap impacted four million people and caused losses of 1.5 As the world warms, farmers will experience events like this more often.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

In 2011, a study in the journal PLOS One already identified gold mining as the leading cause of deforestation. Environmental toll Peruvian gold mining poses many risks to both the environment and human health. If a prospector finds two grams of gold a day, he’s made more than he’s used to earning in a month. Then things got worse.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. Aclima (Series B | $67M | $160M): hyperlocal air quality and greenhouse gas measurement to reduce emissions and protect public health. Developed a remote Carbon Index to quantify soil organic carbon as a tool to help verify soil-based carbon offsets.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the event of a major earthquake, the soils are at risk of “liquefaction” — the ground would essentially turn to mush, and the hundreds of tanks could rupture, spill, or explode. Downtown Portland with oil and liquid fuel tanks in foreground. Credit: Nick Cunningham However, the hub is situated on seismically unstable land.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. Beneath our feet there is an invisible ocean. Pavement is degrading faster.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 24, 2021

By the way, Bendell was one of the first people to introduce me to the way money works, and how mutual credit could provide an alternative, in this TED talk from 2011.]. But the current system causes mental health problems already. Let’s call these people ‘business-as-usual types’, and those who are predicting collapse, ‘adapters’. [By

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

In 2011, just a year after entering parliament, Truss founded the ‘Free Enterprise Group of backbench Conservative MPs described as the “parliamentary wing” of the IEA. But for the ideas whose reputation her incompetence soiled,” as reported in the New Statesman’s Morning Call newsletter. Not for her own benefit.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

In 2011, Lynch visited the Geneva Motor Show to look at the model of a car of the future, which the company hoped to introduce in London. Covid-19 brought a new awareness of our health and the world we live in especially amongst people from Black, Asian and other ethnic minorities who are disproportionally impacted by the pandemic.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Jesse Merrick, shown here in better health, covers a football game in his job as a sportscaster. It’s caused by one of two strains of a fungus called Coccidioides , Cocci for short, that thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. He developed pneumonia, which made everything hurt, even breathing. Walking was painful. “It

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But local conservation groups and residents remained skeptical from the start, warning that the plant could leak toxic waste into water and air, harming human health and ecosystems in a largely forested region where tight-knit communities live close to the land. Geological Survey report noted.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The firm's suppliers cleared at least 140,000 hectares of natural forests between 2008 and 2011 alone, the report claimed. Farmers are given support and advice on protecting soil health and cultivating rice paddies and bananas as opposed to inefficient palm oil plantations.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.:

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

But the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils. Professor Stanton is a clinician-scientist who served as the director of human health at livestock feed company Devenish Nutrition until 2023.

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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. Since 2011, the state has spent more than $3 billion on it, largely to upgrade sewage and drinking water plants. The state sets no phosphorus cap for most farms.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

The Environmental Protection Agency’s National Air Toxics Assessment, which uses emissions estimates to model health risks, estimates that the risk of developing cancer in Reserve is 50 times the national average, and that the five census tracts with the highest risk are all in the area. ” The Rockaways, Queens, N.Y.:

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Health care, already a longstanding challenge in the islands, is expected to get worse, as temperatures rise and mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika proliferate. Rising temperatures have also dried the soil, raising wildfire risks. Louisiana saw more than 20 such events between 2011 and 2021.

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