GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. The inclusion of biodiversity is part of Textile Exchange's Climate+ strategy, which focuses on urgent climate action and recognizes that soil health, water and biodiversity will play a key role in this transition. New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion. Liesl Truscott.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

In October 2019 a pioneering pilot project was carried out on more than 1,000km of transmission mains in the south of Africa using Utilis’ satellite-borne L-band synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) analytics. Marking a likely leak location. The post Tackling leakage from all angles first appeared on Envirotec.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 24, 2025

HyGrid isnt confined to European soil either. Take the HyTrA project in South Africa which employs similar hydrogen systems. From Europe to Africa, this tech is proving its potential to reshape energy landscapes. ” The timelines are promising.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Professor Marshall is also principal investigator of FoRCE (Forest Restoration and Climate Experiment) and founding director of Reforest Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

These events’ aftermath can bring substantial financial losses – including damage to property and pollution of waters, soils, and ecological systems. Projections suggest this number will continue to rise, particularly in North America, Central Asia, and Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

After 20 years, they can attain on average nearly 80% of the soil fertility, soil carbon storage, structure, and tree diversity of old-growth forests. A new study, published in Science , shows that regrowing tropical forests recover surprisingly fast on abandoned land.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

They were sampled from highly specialized habitats such as arid soils in Namibian deserts, the surface of lichens around the world, natron lakes in Chad, crevices in rocks in South Africa, or polluted brooks in Switzerland. Most of these strains had never been assessed for their biotechnological potential before. mg per g.

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Grist

JUNE 7, 2024

Although common among small farmers, particularly across Latin America, Africa, and China, intercropping remains a novelty in much of the world. By contrast, intercropping in sandy soils — the experiment’s control, found in many regions on Earth — significantly increased yields for both the tomatoes and peas.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Although Africa as a whole has contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions, no continent has been more affected by climate change-induced natural disasters like flooding and droughts. By: Njeri Maina and Megan Zaroda. ZEP-RE is using satellite data insights to expand its insurance program to support over 250,000 pastoralists.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 10, 2023

Imagine an insatiably thirsty atmosphere that gets so hot and dry that it literally sucks the water right out of crops and the soil. But for now, let’s look at the way we can harness Soil Water Content data to analyze rapid changes in global soil moisture.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And some schemes in South Africa too? Do you think these ideas will spread more rapidly in Africa, Asia and Latin America? Here are ways we can support the environment, regenerate the soil etc, but we don’t have the money. Most land in Kenya was fertile soil 200 years ago. Is that right? And some trade seasonally.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Aptly named, Justdiggit supports local farmers and pastoralists in Tanzania and Kenya to use accessible tools, like shovels, to dig bunds—semi-circular shaped pits that help the soil capture rainwater. With 300,000 hectares under regreening, Justdiggit and their partners have already brought back over 10 million trees in sub-Saharan Africa.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. And the good news is that nearly 85% of dollar investment in upstream African agrifoodtech went to climate-focused startups, according to the 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report. Source: 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report. But at a total of just $27.2

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Over time, they suck the soil dry of metals like nickel, zinc, cobalt, and even gold. At the midpoint of that range, a farmer would net a cool $3,800 per acre of nickel at today’s prices – which, van der Ent added, is “on par with some of the best-performing agricultural crops on fertile soils, while operating costs are similar.”.

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Grist

JANUARY 9, 2025

On the other hand, when the sponge dries out, it has even more capacity to suck up moisture from the soil and plants below, parching the landscape and turning it into tinder. When you wring out this more powerful sponge, it sends down heavier rains than before. Flexibility is key to successful interventions, according to the new paper.

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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.

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The City Fix

APRIL 27, 2023

Many people point to forest restoration as a way to curb climate change, where replanted forests sequester carbon in trees and soils. But emerging evidence shows that restoration can provide non-carbon climate benefits, too — in particular, reducing heat and regulating rainfall. Here’s what.

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Grist

MAY 16, 2022

Drought Monitor using data on soil moisture, streamflow, and precipitation to categorize droughts by their severity. Flash droughts are also a global problem, with Brazil, India, and multiple countries in Africa facing the worst impacts. As the air warms, it can lead to more evaporation and dry out the soil. Jeffrey Basara.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Drinks giant Diageo has announced plans to invest £450,000 in innovations that can monitor and lessen the impact of the climate and water crises on smallholder farms in Africa. Even under the 1.5C

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Planet Pulse

JULY 26, 2022

From a diplomacy perspective, the Department of State has been leveraging satellite data as a way to guide understanding soil content and rainfall in Africa prior to the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference ( COP 27 ) in Egypt later this year.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

A high-pressure system called an anticyclone reached the region from Africa and created a heat dome , thrusting the sizzling peninsula into peril with both atmospheric and land surface temperatures (LST) routinely exceeding 40°C (104°F) across the region. Even with the flooding, the dryness in the Iberian peninsula has been alarmingly low.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Soil carbon sequestration could remove 3.5 gigatons of CO2 annually by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Polycare Research (Germany, South Africa) – produces reusable building elements with less material and less energy, enabling even non-professionals to construct sustainable buildings without heavy construction equipment.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Business on its home soil had been on hiatus after subsidy support stopped and before post-subsidy economics became attractive. In the meantime, the London-based company has been making progress with projects in Spain , won capacity in France's tenders, expanded into Italy and restarted its activity in the U.K.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Over the past century, the toxic additive has contaminated air, dust, soil, drinking water, and food crops, with hugely damaging impacts on human health, including heart disease, strokes and cancer, in addition to affecting the development of the human brain, especially in children.

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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.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2024

David Ngibuini is a second-generation coffee farmer in Kenya’s central highlands, an area of cool temperatures and rich volcanic soil that’s long been one of the best places to grow coffee on Earth. In recent years he’s planted shade trees, which have also boosted soil nutrients and led to improved cherry quality.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The pesticides have been banned for use on EU soil but Greenpeace says a "loophole" means export of these chemicals to often poorer countries remains not only legal but a thriving industry. A second pesticide named in the investigation is soil fumigant 1,3-Dichloropropene. BusinessGreen has requested comment from Syngenta.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 2, 2020

The benefits of protecting and restoring soil carbon go well beyond any one farm or any one year. Originally posted here: Why protecting soil carbon is a win-win for farmers and the planet. But not enough people are taking these steps.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

We can provide even greater value to the farmer by layering in additional data sources like weather and soil data, as well as additional spectral bands from publicly available Sentinel imagery, ” says Rachel Watling, Marketing and Key Account Manager, AgSpace. .

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 15, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 15 — SupPlant‘s sensorless hardware collects real-time data on plants, soil and the climate conditions to help farmers make precise irrigation. The post SupPlant raises $10 million for affordable irrigation for smallholder farmers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Out of more than 200 groups currently listed on its website, 51 are from the United States and Canada, compared to only 11 from Africa. In these systems, dairy herds cover wide areas, eating as they go and leaving their waste on the ground where it fertilises the soil. But Global North groups dominate.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. “Instead of taking 77 years to get that 500 gigatons out, we could actually have that in 35 years,” Schmitz said. “We

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To To quote the Three Lions England football song, after 30 years of hurt, climate action is finally coming home on African soil here in Egypt," he said. "At

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

The fund seeks to focus on projects in northern Africa, the east coast and west coast of Africa, northern Australia, Indonesia and pockets of North and South America in areas that used to carry trees but are not densely filled with trees due to human degradation or natural erosion.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3 percent of climate finance.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

Dryad is now working on ten proof-of-concept deployments with forest owners in the US, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and Africa. The first live demonstration of the group’s Silvanet system of solar-powered gas sensors was recently conducted successfully in a forest near Berlin, says the firm.

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