Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2021

Tesco dairy farmers to receive 80 per cent seed subsidy for plants and herbs it claims can boost animal health, water and soil quality while also cutting emissions. We will also be working together on more innovative initiatives like our herbal leys project, which should bring huge benefits in terms of soil health and biodiversity.".

Soil 98

Soil Biodiversity Health Carbon 98

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

He joined when Opower had about 30 employees, then served as chief marketing officer as the company went public in 2014 and was acquired by Oracle in 2016. Sachse’s appointment as CEO follows his experience at energy efficiency company Opower. cleantech startup.

Energy 245

Energy Energy Logging Technology 245

Planet Pulse

AUGUST 8, 2023

Studies show that 42% of the soil moisture deficit during this period can be attributed to climate change. Land Surface Temperature (LST) from 2023 over an area of the Southwest United States and parts of Northern Mexico where Planet’s Soil Water Content data showed notable dryness earlier in the year (see map of area below).

Energy Monitor 97

Energy Monitor Soil Home Energy Monitoring North America 97

Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. Warmer air can suck moisture out of the soil, amplifying droughts.

Climate change 141

Climate change Soil South America Africa 141

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 7, 2020

When properly designed and operated, an ecosan system provides a hygienically safe method of converting waste into nutrients that can be returned to soil. Ecological sanitation, or ecosan, is an approach to sanitation that aims to safely reuse human waste.

Waste 200

Waste Waste Agriculture Sustainability 200

Planet Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Land Surface Temperature (LST) from 2023 over an area of the Iberian Peninsula where Planet’s Soil Water Content data showed notable dryness earlier in the year (see map of area below). Planet’s Soil Water Content (SWC) dataset captures the conditions that signal drought using granular, real-time measurements.

Soil 98

Soil Europe Climate change Agriculture 98

Grist

JULY 23, 2024

That’s roughly as much CO2 as cement production worldwide emitted in 2016, and as much as forests globally removed from the atmosphere last year. Digging vaults in clay or silty soil, away from groundwater, is thought to be best practice. billion metric tons. Once companies acquire biomass, not just any hole will do.

Logging 143

Logging Soil Carbon Energy Monitor 143

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater.

Ozone 130

Ozone Soil Health Technology 130

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Working under group CEO Roberto Marquez, João Paulo Ferreira’s Latin America CEO position has overseen the heart of the original business since 2016. Consumers Energy CEO since 2016, she was praised for preventing a bigger emergency two subzero Januarys ago, after a fire at a natural gas compressor threatened energy transmission.

Sustainability 505

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 505

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

CreChar’s circular solution permanently sequesters carbon in soils helping to secure a Net Zero future. Founded in 2016, Carbogenics is a spinout from the University of Edinburgh. The investment has come from a new lead investor Green Angel Ventures along with valued existing investors Scottish Enterprise and Old College Capital.

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Investment Waste Waste Climate change 130

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Moreover, spent biochar can be used to enhance the quality of biosolids, an organic fertiliser that many treatment plants produce, and which is applied to soils where it sequesters carbon for centuries. Untreated screenings are also a source of methane emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

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Patents Waste Waste Europe 130

GreenTechMedia

MAY 12, 2020

It set ambitious targets for renewables, decarbonization and gender diversity in its management, and in 2016 named Isabelle Kocher its CEO, the first woman to lead a blue-chip French company. energy storage acquisition to date, bought in 2016 — was primarily focused on small behind-the-meter installations. Photo: Engie).

North America 130

North America Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. These illnesses will “continue to tax our public health and medical care systems for years to come,” experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, wrote in a 2016 analysis. between 2016 and 2020. Valley fever Carried by soil containing the fungus Coccidioides.

Health 145

Health Climate change Soil South America 145

Renewable Energy World

JULY 8, 2021

Drought conditions include below-normal precipitation and snowpack accumulation, very dry soil and higher-than-normal temperatures. Meltwater from the snowpack often didn’t reach reservoirs in California this year because it was absorbed by drought-parched soil and streams, leaving reservoirs at low levels.

Energy Monitor 74

Energy Monitor Soil Hydropower Energy 74

Business Green

APRIL 4, 2021

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

Retail Soil Biodiversity Agriculture 101

Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

The construction industry is seeking to brush off its reputation as England's biggest producer of waste by promoting refurbishment over demolition, cutting the amount of soil that ends up in landfill, and designing buildings with 'end of life' in mind.

Construction 100

Construction Waste Waste Recycling 100

Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The report’s findings are particularly significant this year because countries are set to conduct the first-ever “global stocktake” since the Paris Agreement was ratified in 2016. Given the low likelihood that warming will be contained to 1.5 degrees, the report emphasized the need for techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Global warming Climate change Carbon COP 145

Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. Warmer air can suck moisture out of the soil, amplifying droughts.

Climate change 97

Climate change Soil South America Africa 97

Planet Pulse

MARCH 17, 2022

Another challenge of our research is the integrated use of optical constellation satellite and SAR data for monitoring soil-vegetation productivity of agricultural land area. We developed a method to map kelp canopy from PlanetScope imagery and created annual kelp maps between 2016-2021.

Energy Monitor 111

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Education 111

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

There are also increasing concerns about the effects of agriculture on soil health, with detrimental effects including erosion, pollution (nutrients and pesticides), compaction, desertification and salinisation. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

Energy Monitor 147

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Technology Building Energy Monitoring 147

Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” Many variables influence permafrost’s stability, like how cold it is, how deep it runs, and the quantity of soil moisture, or its “ice richness.” Many of the valley’s spruce trees lean drunkenly.

Soil 144

Soil Methane Climate change Government 144

E8 Cleantech Angels

APRIL 30, 2020

Soil is our largest potential tool in our fight against climate change," she has said, and she also sees wine culture as a powerful way to engage and educate.

Carbon-neutral 98

Carbon-neutral Climate change Agriculture Retail 98

Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

The firm, which has committed to reducing the carbon intensity of its operations by at least 50 per cent by 2030 from a 2016 baseline, said its updated sustainability strategy was designed to place the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at the core of its Covid-19 recovery plans. warming trajectory.

Climate change 91

Climate change Biodiversity Agriculture Biotechnology 91

Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

In a break-down of all of the UK's production-based emissions - foreign and domestic - between 1990 and 2016 the report reveals that electricity and waste have made the most headway. The UK's carbon footprint is shrinking, but not as drastically as some figures suggest, a new report has warned.

Carbon 68

Carbon Climate change Soil Africa 68

Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

These extremes elevate the risk of dangerous flash floods, soil erosion, and the destruction of crops. The trend is particularly pronounced in the Northeast and Midwest, where the rainiest days became up to 55 percent wetter between 1958 and 2016. has seen widespread increases in rainfall intensity since the 1970s.

Climate change 93

Climate change Stormwater Soil Organic 93

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production. According to a 2016 study by public health, nutrition and environmental experts, replacing beef with beans in the American diet would free up 42 percent of U.S.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 98

Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

As the world gets hotter, soils are getting drier; it takes more and more precipitation to water the same crops and fill the same reservoirs. The atmosphere is like a sponge: It sucks up water from soils, plants, rivers, oceans, and lakes. But scientists can say some things with certainty.

Climate change 115

Climate change Global warming Soil Demand 115

Grist

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Consider the anthrax outbreak in remote Siberia in 2016. Scientists suspect that the bacteria came from the carcass of a reindeer, buried for decades in permafrost, that resurfaced as the frozen soil thawed. I’m sorry to inform you that diseases can come back from the dead.

Global warming 80

Global warming Climate change Soil Carbon 80

Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The overestimation has been put down to methodology changes last year designed to "better represent emissions from drained and rewetted inland organic soils". per cent between 2016 and 2017, the latest year for which data is available. per cent, with a two per cent increase in 2016 alone, the statistics show. per cent in 2019.

Fossil fuels 69

Fossil fuels Transportation Government Carbon 69

Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 16, 2021

An approach to use them also exists under Article 6 of the 2016 Paris Agreement. Challenges in developing effective policy for soil carbon sequestration: Perspectives on additionality, leakage, and permanence. Climate Policy 16 , 973–992 (2016). European Commission [link] (2016). Climatic Change 137 , 625–637 (2016).

Carbon 83

Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral Climate change 83

Planet Pulse

MARCH 14, 2024

Farmers are adopting regenerative practices on the ground that keep the soil healthy over longer periods of time. Nematodes are microscopic parasites that lurk in the soil to feed on crop roots and are responsible for global damages totaling $150 billion every year since they’re tough to catch. Of course you have.

Agriculture 75

Agriculture Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Soil 75

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 Our report highlights the limited evidence of progress and some worrying declines.".

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Government Soil Biodiversity Climate change 54

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

The soil quality is now really bad, with all of the coal dust… I used to collect plants from the forest but the coal mines are making the plants of the forest unhealthy… We Shor people respected nature, we took what it could provide and protected it. This is the first year that there are no berries on the fruit bushes,” she says.

Europe 100

Europe Climate change Logging Soil 100

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. Spike Johnson.

Seafood 142

Seafood Agriculture Pollution Soil 142

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

The soil quality is now really bad, with all of the coal dust… I used to collect plants from the forest but the coal mines are making the plants of the forest unhealthy… We Shor people respected nature, we took what it could provide and protected it. This is the first year that there are no berries on the fruit bushes,” she says.

Europe 97

Europe Climate change Logging Soil 97

AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Since then, the fruit has thrived in the state, thanks to its favorable climate and soil profile. Between 1980 and 2016, an average of 1,100 chill hours was recorded in central Georgia. However, chill hours dropped to about 600 in 2016 and 400 in 2017. Peaches were first introduced in Georgia by a Franciscan monk in 1751.

Global warming 36

Global warming Soil Climate change Agriculture 36

Business Green

JULY 9, 2020

Dubbed EA2025 , the new strategy sets out how the agency plans to promote health, equity and environmental enhancement, while delivering on its core goals to create more climate resilient places, improve air, soil, and water quality, and deliver on its target of net zero emissions by 2030. This year has been significant in many ways.

Resilience 71

Resilience Climate change Soil Carbon 71