Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

Rivers, for example, though we would expect this to be a catchment-specific issue, said David Tompkins, a soil scientist with Aqua Enviro, during the November event. It allocates actions to stakeholders including the EA, local authorities and organic processors. And not all rivers carry the same load of microplastics.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Nuvoda (US) (category: circular economy): Nuvoda’s Mobile Organic Biofilm (MOB) technology operates as a hybrid of an attached biofilm and aerobic granular sludge process, enabling the simultaneous removal of nitrogen and phosphorous. It can simultaneously remove suspended solids and digest organic contaminants without the use of chemicals.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

“Most of the research that’s been done on MPs reports the number of particles in terms of the unit adopted for the sample type, ranging from volume in the case of water, to mass when the analysis involves soil and sediment, and individuals for biota. We measure particle size in all samples. The global plastic industry is valued at USD 522.6

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Nuvoda’s Mobile Organic Biofilm (MOB) technology operates as a hybrid of an attached biofilm and aerobic granular sludge process, enabling the simultaneous removal of nitrogen and phosphorous. It can simultaneously remove suspended solids and digest organic contaminants without the use of chemicals. Nuvoda (US) – circular economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

At the same time, more and more people might be susceptible to Aspergillus fumigatus infection because of growing numbers of people receiving stem cell or solid organ transplants, being on immunosuppressive therapy, or having lung conditions or severe viral respiratory infections.”.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 4, 2023

Planet Basemap of Somalia • August 2022 For example, we can use “planetary forensics” like measuring the amount of moisture in soil to give us a clear environmental signal about the conditions in dry regions. This map depicts global measurements of Soil Water Content derived from satellite imagery. Dry conditions have displaced 1.3

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2020

On top of that, farming insects can also produce valuable by-products such as biodiesel, bioplastics and organic fertilisers.”. New European Union regulations introduced in 2017 allow farming of seven insect species, including field crickets and black soldier flies.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2023

The organic movement forged a path for a federally recognised standard for food - Should regenerative follow its course? But regenerative has an older, more established, type-A sister that could be a path to legitimacy: organic. In the 1980s, organic was the new buzzword for farmers, grocers and consumers.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms. Between 2004 and 2017, 43 million hectares of tropical forest were lost – an area roughly the size of Morocco (WWF).

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

Bristol is studying samples of soil and ice extracted from the north Alaskan coast in 2018. In the two long weeks since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, research into our warming climate has been put on hold. Emily Bristol takes soil samples off the coast of Alaska. Bristol is one of the lucky ones.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

L earn how governments and organizations leverage broad area management to monitor change across vast geographies and timescales. Organizations across various sectors increasingly rely on real-time data and actionable insights to make informed decisions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But digging into innovations being advanced by that organization - AGCO, based in Duluth, Georgia - reveals much about the potential future of technology for cultivating regenerative and precision agriculture. My focus is really to harness the energy of the entire organization. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan.

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Grist

OCTOBER 9, 2019

As they walled off rivers and created dry islands from what was previously soggy marsh, they discovered incredibly rich soil. No one foresaw that this very bounty — soil rich with organic material — would, over time, become a curse of sorts. That organic material contains copious amounts of carbon.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 8, 2020

According to a 2017 study , Europeans use 36 billion disposable straws annually. However, we call biodegradable those products that decompose into organic material with the help of bacteria – and without leaving toxins behind. Straws made of polylactic acid, or PLA, a type of organic plastic, are often branded as biodegradable.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

The berry grows best in boggy, water-soaked soil that can't be used for many other crops. The water in natural land supports the cranberry bog and in return, the cranberry bog enriches the soil that supports outside land.". In 2017 , Wisconsin produced 5.4 And every one acre of cranberry bog requires 5.5

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 2, 2021

hectares in 2017 to 65,442.41 In addition, there is the need to continue working with Planet images in other future projects led by PRIAS such as evaluating the feasibility of the soil in planting crops, monitoring of crop yield, health analysis of crops, and disease monitoring,” said Vargas. . hectares in 2019.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

According to an analysis of hourly rainfall data released Wednesday by the nonprofit science and media organization Climate Central, the U.S. These extremes elevate the risk of dangerous flash floods, soil erosion, and the destruction of crops. has seen widespread increases in rainfall intensity since the 1970s.

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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. Lee has spread misinformation about organic farming. This legislation has already been significantly weakened.

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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. Between 1998 and 2017, private motoring emissions in Scotland increased by 12.1

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

In 2017, researchers from the Joanneum research agency in Styria, Austria, concluded that artificial snow was carbon-neutral due to its cooling effect (snow reflects 80-90% of the sun’s energy into the atmosphere, cooling the planet). For instance, the Wachusett Mountain Ski Area uses as much as 4,200 gallons of water per minute.

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Lead can get into particulate matter when a fire burns forest trees or other plants that have taken it up after it was released into the air or deposited in the soil, usually as a result of decades-old car emissions or industrial processes. “If lead or any other toxic hitchhiker is on that PM2.5 A new lead crisis? By mid-century, as the U.S.

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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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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 4, 2023

the series will feature Brooke Salvaggio , an organic farmer in Kansas City. This food waste is brought to the farm and turned into nutrient-rich compost, curbing climate change and improving the farm’s soil. participants can make beautiful organic inks from the black walnut commonly found in Kansas City, to create block prints.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands. That’s where carbon removal comes in.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. A 2018 study looking at trees and soil carbon found that 80- to 90-year-old hemlocks sequestered 6.8 times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age. If the U.S. Then if you think, wait, what if we lost all hemlocks?

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Since then, the fruit has thrived in the state, thanks to its favorable climate and soil profile. Related: SCAD students fight food insecurity in Georgia with organic farming and beekeeping Since the 1960s, Georgia and the South overall have experienced a 5 degree Fahrenheit rise in average temperatures.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 28, 2020

He now co-owns Grand Prismatic Seed , which specializes in hardy organic seeds, and works as the assistant horticulturalist in Red Butte’s Water Conservation Garden. Ten years of planning and preparation came before the grand opening in the spring of 2017. Banner worked as a field botanist for federal agencies like the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 4, 2024

DeSmog has mapped three sustainability initiatives active in West Africa since 2017, that were set up by powerful global players and buyers in the fishmeal and fish oil industry in response to these critiques. 2] The FIP was set up in 2017 by French fish oil distributor Olvea, which, along with Cargill and Skretting, fun ds the project.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It needs land, water and - in the case of non-organic cotton - chemicals to grow, plus energy and additional chemicals to find its way from the field gate onto our clothes hangers. From socks and shirts to dresses and denim, it makes up for around one third of all fibres in textiles. More and better data means greater insights for farmers.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2023

They could also be the changes in soil moisture, soil temperature, and biomass, derived from the different spectral index of satellite data, for deeper crop health analysis. Planet’s Dove satellites that produced this imagery were launched February 14, 2017 ( news release ), therefore they didn’t image Sacramento County back in 2015.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. The approach proved itself when the 2017 Tubbs Fire burned 95 percent of the preserve and the 2019 Kincade Fire scorched 60 percent.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 2, 2020

On the heels of its wildly successful 2017 Kickstarter campaign for a lightweight and durable shoe called Monsoon, Tropicfeel moved into the clothing realm, directly aimed at disrupting the wasteful and polluting mainstream clothing industry.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

million images from the Planet database dating back to 2017, AMAGGI was able to conduct trend analysis and take a preventative approach to various challenges it faces. Leveraging over 8.7 AMAGGI has also increased the value of each image by extracting NDVI data from it, which unlocked powerful insights for sustainability.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Earth Day organizers educated people about the value of sorting through their trash and advocated for community recycling programs. Corporations responded by creating the first anti-litter organization, Keep America Beautiful, founded in 1953 by the American Can Company and the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

A 2017 study by a group of researchers that included Asseng used models to forecast changes to these main crops under warmer temperatures. It takes inorganic carbon dioxide and turns it into organic carbon. Food shortages are an important driver of social problems. It’s an ancient enzyme, more than 3.5 And a team of U.S.

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