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 also investigated how to measure plastics levels in composts, digestates and soils, and what process interventions are available to reduce it. References.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 2, 2025

Strict regulations for sustainability The geothermal resources in Xiong’An had already been documented in the 1970s during drilling for oil exploitation, as explained by Hu Wenjin, deputy general manager of China Xiongan Group Smart Energy Co. We had reported on the early years of development of the Xiong’An New Area back in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The University of Cardiff and University of Manchester found that UK soils have the highest level of microplastic contamination amongst European countries, with 500 – 1000 microplastic particles applied per square meter of agricultural land each year. Worse in fact, as the sludge poisons the soil before seeping into waterways.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“We are working with remediation companies to develop plans to integrate our proven iSCWO systems into their waste treatment infrastructures and begin the process of eliminating PFAS from a wide range of waste sources, including landfill leachate, wastewater, biosolids, soils, and water filtration by-products,” continued Forney. “To

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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

MAY 10, 2021

Brood X, a group of 17-year “magicicadas” (yes, that’s short for “ magic cicadas ”) have started to emerge from the soil all over the Eastern U.S. That’s more than enough to send them scurrying out of the soil ahead of time. America’s favorite teenagers are back. degrees F hotter than they were when the bugs last emerged in 2004.

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Business Green

MAY 21, 2020

A draft document of an official plan set to be published on 27 May sheds light on what types of low-carbon investments the EU intends to prioritise through its heavily-trailed green recovery plan, as it looks to reboot the economy while moving the continent closer to its climate goals.

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 9, 2024

. | Photo by Jens Büttner / picture alliance via Getty Images Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in everyday gadgets, electric vehicles, and to store renewable energy could be a growing source of the “forever chemicals” that pollute soil and waterways, new research suggests.

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

While many previous reports had documented the buildup of plastic bottles and bags in the natural environment, much less attention had been paid to what the scientists dubbed “microplastics.” While Thompson’s 2004 paper documented small fragments of acrylic, nylon, and polyester in coastal environments around the U.K.,

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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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Sea level rise Pollution Soil Asia 143

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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Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Soil 104

Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

VanderSat has world-class expertise in providing insights to customers by drawing from NASA, ESA and JAXA satellite data, and has built a suite of novel products that report on key conditions on the Earth’s surface, like soil moisture, land surface temperature, vegetation optical depth, and biomass. Forward-Looking Statements.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil. The effects were immediate; the next year they documented increased conception and weaning rates in their cows and calves. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. Since then, they’ve converted another 75 acres.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. By 2014, it had become an epidemic in Jamaica, and an outbreak of 107 cases had been documented in Florida. A vast majority of the Chagas cases documented in the U.S. state s, and researchers have documented the Chagas parasite in 55 percent of those bugs.

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Charged

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Well use it to compact soil, gravel and other base materials for road and foundation projects, as well as rolling out and leveling asphalt during road construction and resurfacing. The double-drum compactor from Volvo Construction Equipment will help Lees team with a variety of projects.

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Electricity Construction Soil Batteries 105

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2022

Mr Ovenden and his team collected tree cores – samples extracted from the trunks – to examine the tree rings that document the annual variation in tree growth.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

This study documents medieval village urban planning within Eastern Europe through geoscientific methods and sets the stage for future remote sensing based archeology. Layouts of such medieval villages and other archeological sites can be outlined using soil and vegetation indices detected by unobtrusive satellite imagery.

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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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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The full document, “Report on major technological trends,” can be accessed via this link. The report classifies identified research topics and innovation trends in terms of Technology Readiness Levels (TRL).

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Energy Monitor Technology Cooling Innovation 94

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.

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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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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 98

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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Solar Industry

AUGUST 28, 2023

Solar has been committed to achieving the highest standard on the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources’ Habitat Friendly Solar Site Assessment , creating more than a square mile of privately financed pollinator habitat in Minnesota. Since its founding, U.S.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 9, 2020

Natural organic reduction, a technique for turning human remains into “soft, beautiful soil” is being billed by its American developers, Recompose , as the greenest of green funerary practices. Was the deceased a member of the Soil Association? The devil could well be in the detail – hopefully not in the soil.

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Grist

JULY 25, 2019

The brutal toll of war on the natural world is well documented, destroying the livelihoods of vulnerable communities and driving many species, already under intense pressure, towards extinction,” Sarah Durant, a researcher at the Zoological Society of London and one of the signatories, told The Guardian.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2021

A new series of reports document findings from the ‘Final 25%’ project from Oxford’s Smith School of Enterprise. Also, soil carbon could be increased – to provide a further carbon sink and potentially increase crop yields. license ).

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

Researchers documented a hemlock stand that started producing carbon instead of sequestering it. The forest can behave as a source of carbon with the loss of the hemlock,” Orwig, who helped document that shift from sink to source in a 2020 study , said. times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

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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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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Agriculture 98

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. Why is it so important in combating climate change?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

This document was first published in 2011 but revised in July 2020 with an Action Plan to follow in April 2021 detailing how this will be implemented over the coming years. It is estimated that for every £1 spent on protecting properties against flooding, £5 in damages are avoided.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2020

We are, as has been well documented, deep into a great extinction event as flora and fauna are forced into ever smaller enclaves. Would that the same could be said of global biodiversity - or the living natural world to give it its more evocative name and rid it of the emotional distancing that accompanies the dry scientific terminology.

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Biodiversity Carbon-negative Soil Policy 81

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. Both scenarios put the public at risk. “If

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The certification requires that an organization considers all environmental issues relevant to its operations, such as air pollution, water and sewage issues, waste management, soil contamination, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and resource use and efficiency. Soil contamination. ISO 14001 Certification . Water and Sewage .

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Business Energy Monitoring Organic Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 148

Green Business Bureau

JULY 28, 2022

Waste and waste by-products can easily make their way into the air, soil, and water sources. Tip #6 – Go completely paperless : Instead of using paper documents, communicate through email, instant messenger chat, via video meetings, and save everything safely in the cloud. How can you reduce waste and prevent pollution?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As documented in the latest edition of DeSmog’s Gaslit column, fossil fuel sponsorship of COP27 represents an extension of a decades-long effort by oil and gas companies to buy social legitimacy by bankrolling sports, arts, and education around the world. climate talks,” Sabido said. “We We need to kick big polluters out.”. Social license.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

To date, no photos documenting the scale of the spill or serious impacts to wildlife have been made public. “The pipeline has been repaired, pressure tested, and covered with soil. The delay in getting information about the spill deprived the media — and the public — of the chance to document the spill at its worst.

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