Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Some recent reports have suggested that corn yields in the United States could be the lowest since drought-plagued 2012, and that corn quality could suffer as a result of hot and dry conditions. Spring started with extraordinarily wet conditions, which can be seen from the Soil Water Content data (Fig. These in-season U.S.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Today’s children are facing climate crisis-related health issues, warns The Lancet ’s Countdown on Health and Climate Change, the annual research collaboratively conducted by 35 global institutions. Health-related incidents flagged by The Lancet ’s report include increased risks of low birth weight and infant mortality for newborns.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

The problem is too complex for straightforward answers: Its outcome relies on rainfall, ocean temperature, soil health, and crop growth rates. Dredged soil from much of that construction was piled on the edges of waterways, forming piles known as spoil banks, or spoil levees, which impede the natural flow of water.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 30, 2019

Puris’ president Tyler Lorenzen touched on the proceeds saying it would go towards “more than a pea protein facility” but was a move that would power regenerative agriculture, as cover crops such as peas give protection against soil erosion. Find out more from our team here.*). This is the future of food.

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Elemental Excelerator

JULY 7, 2022

Since 2012, Elemental has invested in more than 130 companies, funded 100+ projects, celebrated its 20th portfolio exit, and launched a Policy Lab and Career Pathways program to strengthen the systems around our innovation economy.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. Finally, they’d had enough.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

A resident from the island of Kiribati made history in 2012 as the first person to apply for asylum on explicitly climate-change-related grounds, and the possibility of “climate refugees” seems to have gained a place in journalist’s priorities, not necessarily helpfully. Sinking fortunes.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

A resident from the island of Kiribati made history in 2012 as the first person to apply for asylum on explicitly climate-change-related grounds, and the possibility of “climate refugees” seems to have gained a place in journalist’s priorities, not necessarily helpfully. Sinking fortunes.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

In 2010 and 2012, for example, Russian wheat growers saw their yields decline dramatically because of a combination of hot weather and drought. “It The problem is being seen throughout the world. It caused 30 percent reduction in national production, which is really huge,” said Senthold Asseng, a researcher at the University of Florida.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

has grown from around $250 million in 2012 to over $1 billion in 2021. It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests. They both have health problems they attribute to pollution from the mill. I use a nebulizer now.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Plastics threaten “near-permanent contamination of the natural environment,” according to one study , and pose a global health crisis , with plastic chemicals linked to preterm births , heart attacks , and cancer. So where did the three arrows go wrong? The trouble is that their loop has ensnared us.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 8, 2020

” This goal will become reality “when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards and equal access to the decision-making process to have a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.” times higher than the overall population.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Pointing to the reddish river water mixed with mud, Xing said: “The mountain can’t hold soil anymore. Soil should be healthy, waterways protected and the health and wellbeing of workers guaranteed.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 3, 2024

Beyond offering urban residents opportunities to reconnect with nature and assert control over their food systems, urban and peri-urban agriculture can also help to mitigate some of the negative health and environmental impacts associated with urban development. Source: Mulya et al. 2023, optimized from Opitz et al.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Related: Attenborough Effect inspires people to drastically reduce single-use plastics Chasing Coral, 2017 Coral is a barometer for the health of the planet. As a measure of this health, coral is showing that the earth is sick.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Compared to 2012, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is predicting a massive increase in agricultural demand of 50 per cent by 2050. And with 80 per cent of the world's population facing a threat to their water security , trees play a very significant role in stemming desertification and preventing soil erosion.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

Environmental toll Peruvian gold mining poses many risks to both the environment and human health. “Each pit is surrounded by de-vegetated areas of muddy soil ,” Justin Wilkinson, a grant specialist at Texas State University, wrote for NASA’s Earth Observatory. Mass graves have been found in the area.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

. “There’s a lot of work to be done to provide affordable nutrition … and allow those who are seeking to grow organic, or use any tech enabled process that might be better for soil health, better for nutrition, to at least get started,” he said. This increased access to capital could help scale the market.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Climate change risk assessments were subsequently published in 2012 and 2017 with the third in January 2022 setting out 61 risks to infrastructure, human health, nature, and vital systems such as food, transport system and opportunities.

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Grist

JUNE 2, 2023

The department explained that in 2012, the federal Environmental Protection Agency had added, for the first time, two types of PFAS — pronounced PEA’-fass — to its list of “unregulated contaminants” that public water systems must test for. The decision to regulate PFAS represents a huge win for public health.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Microsoft’s cloud architecture eventually will house Land O’Lakes’ data tools including Truterra , which tracks impacts on soil , air and water from no-till, cover crops and fertilizer management practices, as well as WinField United r7 software that uses satellite imagery and geolocated data. billion years of evolution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

But for the ideas whose reputation her incompetence soiled,” as reported in the New Statesman’s Morning Call newsletter. million from 2012 to 2022 from donors who separately donated a combined $584 million to a network of organisations promoting climate denial in the US between 2003 to 2018. Not for her own benefit.

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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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Grist

JULY 7, 2021

If his soil could be healthier, his crop yield higher, his profit margins wider, he makes it happen. That’s good news for Garrett, who hasn’t plowed or otherwise tilled his fields since 2012. He has made nearly $150,000 partnering with corporations to offset planet-warming emissions by capturing additional carbon in his farm’s soil.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In 2012 Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of WWF and various local environmental groups, estimated more than a quarter of all forest loss in the Riau Province was driven by the provision of wood for APRIL mills. Where managed plantations meet the rainforest edge - Credit: Michael Holder Young, fresh-faced and 'green'?

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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. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban. The state sets no phosphorus cap for most farms.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It also oversees weekly testing for toxic algae blooms, which infect shellfish and have become a growing public health hazard fueled by marine heat waves. Silvopasture could make for healthier soil — and keep cattle alive during sweltering summers. Anita Hofschneider Midwest Livestock are dying in the heat.

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