Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Solid urea fertilisers emit ammonia which can harm both natural habitats and human health. The UK government has this week launched a major new consultation on how to reduce ammonia emissions from solid urea fertilisers, which have been widely blamed for exacerbating air pollution and soil degradation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Unfortunately, these compounds have been shown to negatively impact ecological and human health, particularly because they can bioaccumulate up the food chain and affect development in children, increase risk of cancer, contribute to elevated cholesterol levels, interfere with women’s fertility and weaken immune systems.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The new Rethink Farming report presents evidence that farming with nature can restore natural assets and improve resilience to a warming world. Ahead of COP26, the Rethink Farming report presents research from 18 case studies that are said to reveal how farmer-led innovation and nature-based solutions can positively impact farm businesses.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Bill was originally introduced in draft format at the end of 2018, before being presented to parliament in October 2019, but its publication was delayed until after the General Election. in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”. Soil and biodiversity.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

At present, farmers face a multitude of challenges in ensuring high farm productivity such as shifting growing seasons, soil degradation, and water scarcity—all while the demand for food continues to rise. To address this, they analyzed soil moisture levels using Planet data.

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Asia Agriculture Soil Biodiversity 59

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2022

This diverts the wastewater from Spring Creek and allows the soil to act as a natural filter for any chemical residuals that remain in the wastewater (image credit: Heather Preisendanz, Penn State). Treated wastewater effluent is sprayed at Penn State’s beneficial reuse site, the “Living Filter.”

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Organic Agriculture Energy Monitor Health 279

Energy Innovation

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The research underscores a trend that scholars have warned of for decades: climate change presents new and intensified challenges for human health. Experts are urging decision-makers headed to COP27 to center human health in this year’s discussions about climate change mitigation and adaptation. a) and RCP8.5 (b).”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Most brownfield sites have physical health hazards, such as uncovered holes and unsafe structures. On brownfield sites being redeveloped the disposal of waste soils often amounts to significant costs, which are often not fully accounted for during the preconstruction phase.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

The UK start-up manufactures biochar from woody biomass waste and compost for use as an agricultural soil enhancer, and hopes to sell the CO2 sequestered from the process in the form of credible and "ethical" offsets. It is a catalyst for helping to restore natural balances," explains Casely.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 18, 2024

Research published in 2023 found harmful neonicotinoids present in more than 10% of English rivers, home to 3,800 invertebrate species, despite a ban of these chemicals in 2018. Today’s decision will put the health of UK rivers at even further risk.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Indoor air quality specialist and Radon expert Airthings, was among firms offering insight into the problem: “Radon enters a building as the air pressure within a building is usually lower than the pressure in the soil and rocks around the building’s foundation. It enters through a process referred to as advection.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Health 174

Energy Innovation

MARCH 5, 2024

A root-dense sample of wet meadow soil. The soil microbiome is a complex life system dominated by bacteria, fungi, viruses, and numerous other microorganisms. However, climate change may alter the function and composition of soil microbial communities. 1) and has direct consequences for agricultural productivity.

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Soil Climate change Carbon Resilience 52

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. It’s becoming not just present but part of their normal pastures,” he said, noting that he increasingly gets calls from farmers in this region who are wondering what to do.

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 138

Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The combined factors of this continued drought and the unprecedented heat waves sapped the soil moisture of the region, threatening a range of crops , including wheat, berries, and evergreen trees harvested for the Christmas season. Such severe weather events present unpredictable and damaging impacts for the agricultural industry.

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Soil Agriculture Climate change Resilience 98

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

As many PFAS are surfactants they can also coat soils and concrete surfaces at source areas, exhibiting multi-layered waterproofing effects as PFAS storage zones, where they slowly release because of rainfall. are regulated in drinking water, surface waters, soils and groundwater. Why a problem?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

DeSmog recently reported how HealthforAnimals, a Belgium-based organization representing some of the world’s biggest animal pharmaceutical companies, presented “misleading” information to back their current business models. based environmental organization.

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Soil Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Carbon-negative 98

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Crises often present an opportunity to reimagine current systems, so I wondered: Would that happen here, with food? Crises often present an opportunity to reimagine current systems. Crises often present an opportunity to reimagine current systems. They also looked more agile and resilient. Pull Quote.

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Sustainability Organic Resilience Agriculture 508

Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2022

Agricultural practices routinely involve large-scale monocrop operations that negatively impact soil health and utilize unsustainable chemical practices, producing harmful waste streams. Additionally, deeply rooted social impacts exist within the current food system; 18.8 million people in the U.S., Regenerative Agriculture.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2022

UK knitwear brand Peregrine Clothing has set its sights on using 100 per cent "regeneratively-sourced" British wool within the next five years, in a bid to support agricultural techniques that can help to restore landscapes, soil, habitats and natural carbon stores. Today, such practices are sadly in a minority and need more public support.

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Soil Agriculture Health Retail 36

EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Agricultural conservation practices like conservation tillage, cover crops and nutrient management provide many environmental benefits including improved water quality, reduced soil erosion, improved soil health and carbon sequestration. remains relatively low, with no-till being used on 26.3%

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Agriculture Soil Organic Resilience 52

Grist

OCTOBER 31, 2023

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. Salt pollution presents an “existential threat to our freshwater supplies,” according to the study. The rise of saline dust in the air presents a different problem for water supplies.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every year, the approach of Christmas fills me with dread as I am rubbish at buying presents. So instead of a physical main present she got a piece of paper in her card with details of the course. If Mrs K looks twice at something in the months beforehand then it goes on my mental list. And she loved it.

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Sustainability Soil Health 59

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

A contaminant whose importance appears to have grown significantly in recent years, poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) present a challenge to pollution management given their apparent toxicity – although a clear picture is still emerging – and persistence. As regulations tighten, the topic seems to be growing more urgent.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

Four more certification bodies added to online retailer's Climate Pledge Friendly scheme covering chemicals, organic items, animal welfare and human health. In response, Amazon has insisted it is working towards a goal of zero product disposal, and that at present no items are sent to landfill in the UK.

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Europe Retail Health Organic 91

Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Already today there are 900 earth-observing satellites, coupled with an emerging network of ground-based sensor technologies, tracking everything from the planet's ecosystems and atmosphere, to the chemicals that permeate our soils and the migratory patterns of wildlife.

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Soil Politics Agriculture Climate change 83

Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. Now, she said, most cases are acquired locally, generally spreading among patients in health care settings. auris infections. auris was first spreading in the U.S.,

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Business Green

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The firm is also aiming to ensure 100 per cent of its coffee is responsibly sourced worldwide by 2025 - a feat it claims to have already achieved within the UK and Ireland - up from 82 per cent at present, while helping its farmers plant more than 20 million trees at or near their coffee farms.

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Agriculture Soil Climate change Biodiversity 74

Grist

APRIL 18, 2023

The compounds were mainly used for building construction and electrical equipment but their health impacts only became clear decades after they were originally manufactured. Today, they linger in the soil and cause problems when people are exposed to the compounds. PCBs are a group of substances that were first manufactured in 1930.

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Pollution Soil Health Organic 68

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Waiting at least a month to notify the public of this violation is especially egregious given the major health and safety risks associated with carbon dioxide contamination in air and water,” Walsh added. EPA officials also said that, at the moment, drinking water around Decatur remains unaffected. “At

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Energy Monitor Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 114

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

France is the second largest market in the EU for pesticides, which have been found to harm biodiversity , soil health and human health. According to the Pesticides Action Network, over a third of Bayer’s sales derive from products that are highly hazardous to the environment, animal or human health.

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GreenBiz

JULY 17, 2020

The effluent is actually perfect organic fertilizer, and we take it back to the farms to build soil fertility and further sequester carbon — just like the sheep does. It’s bringing home the idea of how fragile our habitat is and how sacred our health is. . We are raising the bar.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 29, 2021

“The biogas industry is growing rapidly worldwide, which presents both exciting new opportunities to grasp and challenges to explore and overcome together.” The company has rewritten the farm-based biogas production rulebook. View programme and full list of speakers. ” says Charlotte Morton, WBA’s Chief Executive.

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Business Green

JULY 25, 2021

We should claim back our food heritage and fight climate change with nutritious foods that benefit the soils we're rapidly depleting, argues Bold Beans founder Amelia Christie-Miller. They are cover crops and nitrate fixers, meaning fewer synthetic fertilisers are required as they replenish the soil naturally and prevent soil erosion.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The findings have sparked questions over public health, with experts expressing fears over contaminants possibly affecting the entire food chain. According to Dr. Leslie, microplastics in the soil likely found their way into crops eaten by animals. Microplastics are already present in water, soil , air, and food.

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Microplastics Plastics Soil Health 28

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2021

By adding additional sensors, the network can also be used to monitor tree health and growth. Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO Bosch Sensortec, commented: “According to the Bosch guiding principle “Invented for life,” we want to improve people’s quality of life and safeguard the livelihoods of present and future generations.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 130

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. It’s becoming not just present but part of their normal pastures,” he said, noting that he increasingly gets calls from farmers in this region who are wondering what to do.

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 52

Greentown Labs

MAY 26, 2021

Bayer , headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a multinational life science company with core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. Sustainable development and inclusive growth are core elements of Bayer’s corporate strategy and vision: “health for all, hunger for none.” Learn more about them here. ###.

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