Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2020

Phase out of synthetic fertilisers and wider dietary shift away from intensively farmed meat urgently required to curb climate damaging gas, the Soil Association warns. The Soil Association said an overhaul was therefore urgently needed in the way nitrogen is used in agriculture in order to avoid further environmental and climate damage.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

But these policies often address climate change in isolation without regard for other pressing issues like a decline in biodiversity, the contamination of freshwater sources, and the pollution of agricultural soils. A forest of quiver trees in Namibias biodiverse southern region.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Alongside the policy discussions on how to reach the Paris Agreement of 2015 and limit global warming to 1.5⁰C, A Healthier Earth will have a central plot to demonstrate biochar’s role in both carbon capture and soil improvement, including its ability to tackle food and water security in desert environments. “It

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2020

A Scots firm that focuses on large scale land redevelopment and rewilding has hired 20 environmental consultants after a global recruitment drive. Wildlife biologist Eleanor Shield said: “Human activities have caused global warming, which is increasing to dangerous levels.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Tomazoni’s call for greater investment in agribusiness is part of a broader strategy by agricultural giants to present themselves as part of the solution to global warming in multilateral forums, such as the G20, where global leaders meet this week November 18-19 in Rio de Janeiro.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 25, 2022

Each of these gases remains in the atmosphere for different lengths of time, contributes differently to the greenhouse effect, and has a different global warming potential (GWP). Traditionally, the ocean, soil, and forests have acted as carbon sinks, systems that absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release.

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Grist

JUNE 18, 2024

That may not be such a big deal for a human, but new research shows that the microbial action in icy Arctic soils might not be so different. On a global scale, it could mean the planet belching up more dangerous greenhouse gases. In a self-perpetuating feedback loop , the warmer it gets, the more active soil microbes become.

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

The report, called the Global Land Outlook 2, comes from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and follows a landmark UN report earlier this month that called for “rapid and deep” emissions cuts to avoid the worst effects of global warming. degrees Celsius.

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Grist

APRIL 15, 2021

Mack, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University, knew that the carbon dioxide released by these burning trees could further accelerate global warming. They also took measurements over 13 years of soil carbon and tree growth at 75 sites that burned in 2004. The scorched boreal forests are rapidly regenerating.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Researchers are in a race against time to salvage Georgia peaches as global warming worsens. Since then, the fruit has thrived in the state, thanks to its favorable climate and soil profile. For now, Georgia’s agriculture sector remains busy, given its favorable soil and climate.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Other offsetting projects enhance biodiversity, improve soil quality, food production or rainwater absorption.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Even in the most optimistic scenario considered in this report, the chance of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is only 14 percent, and the various scenarios leave open a large possibility that global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius or even 3 degrees Celsius,” the report noted. degrees C, or 4.5

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2022

The five-year experiment used infrared lamps and soil-heating cables to heat thousands of spruce, pine, and fir seedlings at two University of Michigan forest sites in northeastern Minnesota.

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Greenability Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free nutrients for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. As we rediscover the incredible role of microbial life in our soil, we realize how important it is for us to do whatever we can to support them.”. “As

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2020

An increasing number of floods, droughts, climate change, global warming, water scarcity, and pollution are giving us a signal that it is time to make some changes. Look folks, the planet is consistently sending cries for help. It’s warning people of their wrongdoings. That is why it.

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Grist

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The long-frozen soil beneath the Arctic could rapidly thaw and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane stored within it, heating up the atmosphere even more in a feedback loop. The framing is intended to draw attention to the radical changes that global warming might bring. tipping point.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2020

Combined with the fact that some of this year’s fires appear to be burning into carbon-rich peat soils , the ultimate climate impact of this year’s fire season could be much greater than what scientists are currently estimating. With unusually high temperatures continuing to bake the Arctic , the flames show no immediate signs of dying down.

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Grist

JUNE 25, 2021

Climate tipping points are the phenomenon by which small increases in temperature can trigger self-perpetuating loops in the natural world, “tipping” them towards dramatic and widespread change after a certain temperature threshold is crossed — sometimes leading to even more emissions and warming. We also know how.”

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 That carbon is then integrated into the soil by insects. gigatons of CO₂ annually, the researchers found. degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

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Grist

JUNE 25, 2020

As global warming accelerates, the Arctic is heating up two to three times faster than the rest of the planet. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the earth as a whole has warmed about 1.44 degrees Fahrenheit over the past 40 years; the Arctic has warmed by about 3.5

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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. This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world.

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Grist

MARCH 30, 2022

degrees Celsius of global warming that has occurred to date. In the broadest sense, overshoot is a future where the world does not cut carbon quickly enough to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming coming back down is not going to bring you that species back,” she said. Warming of 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors is essential if global warming is to be kept to well below 2ºC, if not 1.5ºC, said the authors.

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Greenability Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free fertilizer for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. As we rediscover the incredible role of microbial life in our soil, we realize how important it is for us to do whatever we can to support them.”. “As

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2022

In the 1800s, conscious of the likely shrinking effect of draining the peaty soil around Whittlesea Mere, William Wells, and other wealthy landowners, instigated the burial of a measurement post at Holme Fen, which was anchored in the bedrock and cut off at the soil surface.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. These were BIV’s first African startups.

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Grist

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Scientists and journalists alike are talking about the effects of global warming in frightening terms. You’d be hard-pressed to find a creature more susceptible to global warming than corals. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that climate change has brought us a ghoulish vocabulary. Ghost forests. Coral skeletons.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In addition to balancing out any remaining emissions that can’t be eliminated, scientists say carbon removal is the only way the world could eventually reverse global warming, by sucking more carbon out of the atmosphere than we’re putting in. How do we ensure forests are managed to minimize risk of fires?

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Grist

MARCH 28, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas created by, among other things, decaying trash , and it often seeps through the soil and plastic covers meant to contain it. “And then other times, you know, I’ll see a massive billowing plume that’s three kilometers long.” Doing so also benefits communities: A disproportionate number of U.S.

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Econaur

APRIL 3, 2020

It will quickly absorb moisture from air and soil and again get into non-composted organic form. Which will now rotten in the open soil. The dried powder is not a compost it is just forced stage of organic matter. Such dried powder is very hygroscopic. This will start smelling foul as it becomes wet again.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Furthermore, agriculture, forestry, and land use change are responsible for about 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming, and agriculture uses about 70% of fresh water supplies. With no soil or pesticide contamination, water efficiency is further enhanced by the absence of a requirement for washing.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Globally, agricultural systems have come under pressure to reduce their carbon footprint and the UK government has set a target of ‘carbon neutral’ farming by 2050. for Global Warming Potential (commonly known as carbon footprint); 21.2% for Terrestrial Acidification Potential; 22.5% for Agricultural Land Use.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Gardening should be good for the environment, adding oxygen to the air, nutrients to the soil and filtering water for consumption. Sead Pod offers grassroots solution to air pollution and global warming. That’s where Sead Pod comes in, a vertical garden made using sustainable practices and recycled materials. Original post:Â .

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. This is a step-change for the food and agriculture sector – and for the planet.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

All these methods work to improve the soil, reduce air and water pollution, cut emissions, and boost biodiversity. These big ag entities often link regenerative agriculture to carbon storage in the soil. Nature-based Solutions Often associated with: trees, offsets, soil sequestration, conservation, nature-positive.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 11, 2024

As methane is 28 times more potent a greenhouse gas compared to carbon dioxide, each molecule of methane captured is a significant gain in steps to reduce global warming. There are two main schemes that incentivise the production of biomethane in the UK: the Renewable Heat Incentive and the Green Gas Support Scheme.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

Goals approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), which are in line with 2C of global warming, commit the firm to achieving absolute zero direct emissions and cutting the carbon footprint of a Nando's meal in half by 2030.

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