Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

An example of a pit latrine, where human waste is deposited in the soil where nature is able to safely sanitise it (image credit: Dr Simon Willcock, Bangor University). This includes pit latrine waste that gradually filters through the soil — a natural process that cleans it before it reaches groundwater.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. percent contribution to global human-induced emissions is a higher share than aviation.

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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. The southeastern U.S.,

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 3, 2024

Data + Fuels Management Insights: Soil Water Content Is a Leading Indicator of Vegetation Dryness Live fuel moisture (LFM), or the moisture contained in living vegetation, is a strong indicator of wildfire risk. However, studies show that soil water content is a leading indicator of LFM content.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

One of the world’s biggest ecological experiments Tropical forests cover just 6% of the planet’s land surface but are home to around 80% of the world’s documented species (WWF), and act as major carbon sinks. For instance, hornbills specifically require large mature trees with holes where the females can nest.

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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 have also documented a partial recovery in kelp abundance between 2020 and 2021.”. Air Quality. Sustainable Agriculture. “The

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Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It’s the first time that scientists have documented the extent to which humans have changed the salt content of the land, water, and air across the globe. 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.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Vandersat’s innovative products help customers better measure and understand water management and crop health in major markets. In connection with the vote of dMY IV’s stockholders, dMY IV has filed a Registration Statement with SEC, which includes a proxy statement/prospectus and certain other related documents.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Activists and scientists have found alarming levels of radioactivity in samples collected along the road and soils outside Austin Master Services, an oilfield waste processing facility with a history of sloppy practices in eastern Ohio. Soil nationwide generally has a radium background level of about 1 picocurie per gram, and the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 27, 2022

The Strategy 2030 document sets out three overarching goals for the group, which comprises 46 grassroots charities with a collective 850,000 members, largely focused on harnessing the restoration of nature to help enhance biodiversity, drive down emissions, and boost climate resilience.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

A zero waste program should avoid burning and eliminate discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the environment or human health. Comparatively, poor waste management contributes to air pollution, exacerbates climate change, contaminates ecological habitats, and is harmful to wildlife and human health. Cafeteria and food waste.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But so far, there’s been limited empirical research linking the tribe’s public health woes to its environment. She wants to take her kids out hunting and foraging with her, but she doesn’t want to expose them to the environmental health hazards she suspects are lurking in the soil. Grist / Zoya Teirstein. Or rather, the dogs do.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2024

If not properly plugged and abandoned, these wells and facilities can contaminate waterways and soil, serve as a source of climate and air pollutants, and can present physical hazards to people and wildlife,” CalGEM concluded in a 2023 legislative report. The mandate of CalGEM is to protect public health and the interests of Californians.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Water resource monitoring: Soil Water Content data is used to help build models and make informed decisions about irrigation needs, drought risk, and ecosystem restoration projects. Soil Water Content allows organizations to monitor complex water systems by providing insights in water demand and storage capacity.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

This type of waste can be hazardous to human health and the environment if not managed properly. When this waste is not disposed of properly, it can cause pollution of soil, water, and air. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals.

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Their team extracts DNA sequences from soil samples and pairs it with data on climate, soils, and more to better understand which fungal microbiomes accelerate tree growth and carbon removal. A handful of soil easily contains over 1000 coexisting microbial species. Most species on Earth are microbial.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next, a Verification Analyst obtains additional information from candidates via documentation and engaging directly. You’ll use this platform to access various resources and tools, assemble your project team, collect any required documentation, and submit payment and your application for certification. Submit required documentation.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 12, 2023

Canal-based irrigation is heavily relied upon in Ukraine in the summer, and the projected summer rains are unlikely to be sufficient to maintain crop health and average yields in the previously-irrigated lands in this part of the country.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

But Marra, a forest pathologist at the Experiment Station with a PhD in plant pathology from Cornell University, has documented from studying his fallen trees that internal decay has the capacity to significantly reduce the amount of carbon stored within. Probably not. There’s probably bigger fish to fry before we get there.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The document urges governments, companies, and greenhouse gas crediting programmes to work together to promote "clear and transparent" carbon accounting methods, by establishing definitions, rules and a common understanding of approaches. Governments tend to be relatively unaware of the VCM," the report notes.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

DeSmog conducted a five-month investigation into the meat industry’s PR and lobbying, reviewing hundreds of documents and statements by companies and trade associations. Regenerative agriculture seeks to restore natural habitats and reverse climate change by restoring soil health and improving its ability to store carbon.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Big Ag’s Delay Tactics.

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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. Kat Anderson has documented. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? What are the characteristics of systemic environmental racism?

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

As has been well documented, these impacts are reaching, and have arguably surpassed, crisis levels. And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. The health of waterways and land are inextricably linked. You can't separate them.

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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. The southeastern U.S.,

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Planet Pulse

MAY 9, 2024

There’s a lot of material in these documents, so we’re breaking down what we believe are the most important things you might want to know. We see a ton of upside to integration with other Planetary Variables like Land Surface Temperature and Soil Moisture, which can help characterize drought stress and forest health.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Time for Energy is part of a collection of 201 company documents, official correspondence, reports, academic studies, and other materials that cast new light on what Shell knew about climate change — and what it chose to tell the public. ” Documents from the collection can be viewed at Climate Files , a project of the U.S.-based

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Land use affects public health and safety, food security, and, ultimately, a nations future well-being. Precision agriculture: Farmers and agricultural companies use satellite images to monitor crop health , assess soil conditions, and manage irrigation to increase yields and reduce resource wastage.

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Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding. 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. Christopher Ketchum / Grist.

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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. The laws eventually passed in 39 states.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Documents also revealed that Mitloehner was the figurehead of “a massive campaign” to undermine the findings of the influential 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission into food, planet and health – which prescribed wealthy countries make deep cuts to meat and dairy consumption – before the Commission’s report was even released.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 1, 2023

This change in the timing of the annual cycle of plant developmental stages, or phenology, in turn produces massive ripple effects that impact human health, cultural practices, farmer livelihoods, and food security. Source: Vitasse et al. Pollen-related medical bills in the United States alone have exceeded $3 billion annually.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2020

It could include catchment sensitive farming schemes, integrated pest management; it could include soil health schemes and measures to promote that.". But the SFI could bring that ambition down even further.

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