Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Researcher Mark Higgins testing soil with a probe. Gary Robbins, UConn professor of geosciences and natural resources, explains the project started with a request from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ( DEEP ) in 2013. The researchers found evidence of leachability of the contaminants in some soils.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2021

But one aspect of climate science that’s more prominent in this report than previously is the concept of climate tipping points, which are mentioned 97 times in this report , compared to 27 times in the previous assessment dating back to 2013. Globally, permafrost stores almost twice the carbon that is currently in the atmosphere.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

largely due to more soils and sorting residues being landfilled. These increases continue the overall trend since 2013 when 578,096 tonnes was collected, an overall increase of 24.8%. These were followed by construction and soils waste (increase of 8,000 tonnes, 9.0%). Less than half as much waste sent to landfill as in 2011.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2024

Digging vaults in clay or silty soil, away from groundwater, is thought to be best practice. Several also have plans to rehab wood vault sites after trees are buried, planting the soil with native seeds for pollinator habitat or grazing use.) Once companies acquire biomass, not just any hole will do.

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Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

billion acres of soil around the world have gotten saltier, an area roughly the size of the entire United States, and it’s stressing out plants. Road salt made up 44 percent of the country’s salt consumption from 2013 to 2017, the study says. Researchers in Maryland and four other states found that 2.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Analysis of official data by British conservation charity Buglife found that 88 per cent of UK water sites were contaminated with neonicotinoids in 2017.

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GreenBiz

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. and Canadian cities. "At

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

The large volume of gloves used in the industrial market means that often gloves are thrown into the garbage after they are soiled or worn out. A rain barrel collects water while a compost bin turns food scraps into nutrient-rich soil for their organic garden.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Calculating the carbon footprint of a farming system is a complex metric involving a large number of indicators including what kind of fuel is used on the farm, how the soil is cultivated, the style of land management and the types of animals and crops being farmed.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2020

investor-owned utility group, secured the development rights for a large zone nearly 30 miles off the coast of its home state back in 2013. million for its offshore zone in 2013; the last federal offshore wind lease area auction saw three zones go for $135 million apiece. soil, without yet making any commitments of its own.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

The positive role that beavers could have in improving water-quality, with their dams acting as filters which trap soil and other pollutants from surrounding farmland. The beavers’ dam building activities had also helped reduce the risk of flooding to some flood-threatened human settlements.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees. Palm oil is a dirty word for many environmentalists.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

percent per year rate for pre-2013 plants. Solar module degradation, for example, is widely studied and covered by warranties, but power output can also decline over time due to equipment failure throughout the plant, module soiling, and downtime for maintenance, among many other factors. percent per year, compared to the 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Defra estimated the economic damages from the 2013/2014 floods were in the region of £1 billion to £1.5 This increase in rainfall, combined with rising sea levels, suggests the frequency and severity of flooding in the UK will rise significantly over the coming years. billion, with 46 percent of this allocated to homeowners and businesses.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2020

Since the 1940s, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — more commonly known as PFAS — have been leaching into the soil , the groundwater , and our bodies. Between 2013 and 2015, as many as 6 million Americans were routinely exposed to PFAS levels exceeding the EPA’s safety guidelines. “We We want to do right by people,” he explained.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean. Valley fever Carried by soil containing the fungus Coccidioides. But the environment harbors dozens of other carriers of illnesses you’ve probably never heard of.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Green MEPs protested in 2013 against pesticides that may harm vital pollinators. This includes controversial neonicotinoids, which have been partially banned in the EU since 2013 due to substantial scientific evidence they harm bee populations. Credit: greensefa. In October 2021, the EU allowed the continued use of the chemical.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Natural Capital Committee again warns there has been virtually no zero progress against the government's own biodiversity, water, air, and soil quality goals. Meanwhile, progress has stalled in several other key areas, the report states. Our report highlights the limited evidence of progress and some worrying declines.".

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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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Green Business Bureau

JULY 26, 2022

Additionally, conventional farming practices reduce the levels of carbon retained in the soil – an important medium for carbon sequestration. An albeit old report (2013) from the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization claimed that 20-40% of fresh food produce is thrown away due to cosmetic reasons.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2021

Thali Easton in Bristol , for example, is an Indian restaurant that has adopted the mantra of 'jugaad' (do more with less) and became the first Indian restaurant group to be awarded a Three Star Sustainability Champion Rating by the Sustainable Restaurant Association in 2013.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has this week published its fourth annual report on its progress against the objectives set out in the 25 Year Environment Plan, analysing its performance against 50 natural capital indicators spanning air, water, waste, biodiversity, and soil. per cent between 2011 and 2016.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: Perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence. The office of the Auditor General [link] OAG%20Carbon%20Neutral.pdf (2013). Biological Conservation 161 , 71–90 (2013). REFERENCES. Thamo, T. & & Pannell, D. Richards, K. & Huebner, G.

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Elemental Excelerator

JULY 7, 2022

Terviva was one of Elemental’s first investments in 2013. Naveen joins an already established board that includes Chair Laurene Powell Jobs, Elemental CEO Dawn Lippert, Kelvin Taketa, Cheryl Martin, and David Crane. This news follows an additional $32.5 M commitment from the U.S.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. In 2016, hospitals in New York identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. auris infections.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

You might well think the UK's green and pleasant land is a perfect ally in tackling climate change, able to soak carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it as carbon in the leaves, trunks and roots of our much-loved flora and in the soils beneath. Getting bogs back to good health.

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Better Ventures

MAY 20, 2013

Industrial agriculture depletes soil for future use, introduces synthetic chemicals into food and water supplies, and with 30% of all greenhouse gas emissions, is the single largest contributor to climate change. We’ve got just 2 weeks to go in the program! This week, hear from Zach Warder-Gabaldon from AgGrow.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 28, 2019

According to Greenpeace , by 2013, only 9% of Yunnan’s forest was still primary, because “many high-quality forests have vanished and been converted into plantation”. And even a light rain can wash away the soil from mountain slopes where the coffee plants grow. Experts said the soil had been exhausted and polluted.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

The sweeping package of measures is aimed at lowering agricultural emissions – that make up 10 percent of the bloc’s overall greenhouse gases – and protecting the healthy soils and ecosystems on which farming relies. MEP candidates, and their parties, also regularly took aim at the EU’s Green Deal.

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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. But from 2009 to 2013 droughts occurred in Yunnan every winter, bringing water shortages and turning farmland barren for millions of residents. The trees acted as a natural barrier to pests and disease.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 24, 2021

Most of the western half of the country is already in moderate to exceptional drought conditions, which, unfortunately, is likely to expand into the most significant spring drought since 2013. The failed 2020 summer monsoon, low soil moisture and warmer than usual temperatures are all reasons cited by the NOAA.

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Econaur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Intending to improve this situation, Uttam Banerjee, Sachin Joshi, and Dr VM Chariar started Ekam Eco Solutions in 2013. Zerodor is an attempt to recover urine and faeces in pure form so that it does not pollute the soil and water and can be converted into useful fertilizer. The only way you can do this is to avoid flushing the pans.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In 2017 the city of Miami Beach dove into the second stage of its $400- to $500-million investment project, (which began in 2013), to raise roads and install pumps in response to annually rising sea-levels. Beneath the soil beds are pipes and water storage containers to manage the runoff. Water control is only one facet of the issue.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

Finally, in 2013, Woodside threw in the towel. First the country would have been abstracted into soil, then the soil would have been abstracted into acres, then the acres would’ve been abstracted into a site, then the site — having been abstracted of all vegetation — would at last have been abstracted into a plant.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In the same view nearly eight decades later (bottom photo, 2013, John Marshall Photography), note the complete absence of recent fire evidence, widespread ingrowth creating denser forests, loss of nonforest, and lack of forest successional heterogeneity.

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