Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

The technology, now in its next phase of development via a university spin-out company – Nanolyse Technologies – could transform the protection of human health and the environment against chemical pollution caused by toxic, heavy metals dissolved in water.

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Grist

AUGUST 20, 2024

And they’re putting on an unorthodox show for the handful of humans who know where, and how, to tune in — a complex symphony of vibrations and pulses that relay the state of the very soils these organisms are moving within. So actually, you can tell slight differences between the acoustic profiles of these little critters.”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

Here are the companies that caught my eye over the past few months for snagging funding, releasing products or breaking the mold with unexpected technologies. One option is to deploy microbes that grab nitrogen from the air and add it to soils, a route pioneered by first movers such as Pivot Bio. emissions. . Atomo Coffee.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A new technology of this sort, chemical garment-to-garment recycling, was one of your favorite stories of the year. . That includes two new technologies. Carbon renewal technology, or CRT, breaks down waste plastic feedstocks to the molecular level before using them as building blocks to produce a wide range of materials and packaging.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Farming and renewable energy have gone hand in hand for years, with popular technologies such as solar panels and wind turbines offering farmers a means of diversifying their business while helping the planet. However, another less well-known renewable technology has been quietly making an impact, too. What’s in it for farmers?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

.” “Despite warm words and promises to listen to health professionals and worried parents,” she said, “when it comes to the crunch, they have chosen to let the public down.” in line with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guidelines.”. Soil and biodiversity. Working with business.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

When production is reduced, farmers may use more chemicals in the growing process, which harms the soil and water sources, further degrading the planet and human health. As a result, coffee production will be greatly limited in medium and lower elevations by 2030 to 2050. Coffee, poverty and migration are also connected.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 17, 2024

Monitoring soil health and carbon is key to cutting land-based emissions, but is complex and expensive. The post Downforce Technologies raises $4.2 million to measure carbon stored in soil appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Downforce, based in the UK, uses remote.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 13, 2025

3D-Printed Biodegradable Fungal Battery Breakthrough Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) have developed a groundbreaking energy innovationa 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery. Unlike traditional batteries that require charging, this one needs feeding.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

For example, the application of digestate to agricultural soils can improve water retention and water cycling, boost soil organic carbon and biodiversity, and reduce soil erosion. HRS produces a range of systems which directly help biogas plants provide these benefits.

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Grist

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As global temperatures rise from the burning of fossil fuels, researchers and policymakers have proposed solutions like installing renewable energy, replacing gasoline-powered cars with electric ones, and developing technology to suck carbon out of the air. Such an approach is not only more likely to help the world meet various U.N.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

Green water is the water cycle available to plants, including rainfall and soil moisture. This is now affecting the health of the entire planet, making it significantly less resilient to shocks,” says lead author Lan Wang-Erlandsson from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. It depends on soil moisture for its survival.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The University will develop a feasibility study and test approaches for the satellite detection of methane emissions at landfill sites, and for the satellite detection of vegetation health changes in the proximity of landfills due to accidents or mismanagement.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing. Information Technology. Thu, 02/25/2021 - 00:05.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

A joint collaborative project funded through Innovate UK and Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme aims to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of digital technology as a means of remotely monitoring wildlife diversity in a farming context. The work will be completed on a dairy and arable farm in Dorset.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2020

As such it pledged to increase traceability and transparency by using emerging digital technologies — such as satellite monitoring, geolocation tracking and blockchain systems — to enhance oversight, accelerate smallholder engagement and improve its approach to derivates sourcing.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 12, 2022

Much of the work we have done to produce these feeds draws on the use of passive microwave sensors, which provide unique insight in measuring water content in soils and vegetation. We developed relationships with customers like the Dutch Water Authorities , who use Soil Water Content data to keep track of flooding threats.

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

The company has created what it calls a "metagenomic database," or an alternative chemical catalog, comprised of 75,000 biomolecules derived from the DNA of soil microbes. Questions about the inputs and outputs from these processes, and whether the process technologies are safer, will be important to answer. Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nano- and microplastics are seemingly everywhere — water, soil and the air. As reported in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters , boiling and filtering calcium-containing tap water could help remove nearly 90% of the nano- and microplastics present.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 5, 2023

Vertical farming is increasingly being regarded as one of the solutions to the problems faced by global food production systems, and in the following article Antti Viitanen explains why measurement and control technology will be key to the success of this rapidly growing sector.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 26, 2020

This can sometimes be difficult when developing healthcare facilities, however it is important as it ensures natural sustainability and keeps our air, water and soil clean and healthy. It is reported that the health and care system in England is responsible for approximately five per cent of the country's carbon footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Our study illustrates that implementing advanced wastewater treatment or distributed wastewater (DWT) technologies in key locations may allow for decreased nutrient loading and improved estuarine water quality and seagrass health in the Indian River Lagoon and elsewhere with similar conditions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 21, 2023

Study found that in some cases up to 77% of fertiliser spread on UK soil went into atmosphere Some nitrogen fertiliser types spread on UK farmland are ending up in the atmosphere, with the worst offenders emitting on average 18% of the applied nitrogen fertilizer as ammonia gas into the air. of the applied nitrogen fertiliser types.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

"There’s a lot of work to be done to provide affordable nutrition … and allow those who are seeking to grow organic, or use any tech enabled process that might be better for soil health, better for nutrition, to at least get started," he said. This increased access to capital could help scale the market.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The authors say this poses a wide range of direct and indirect threats to human, animal and plant health. Toxic dyes can also bioaccumulate in the fishes’ fatty tissue, presenting health risks to humans and animals throughout the food chain.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Best known for its butter — and the Native American logo it retired last year — Land O’Lakes is also a 21st-century force in technology. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 LinkedIn | Company profile.

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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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Planet Pulse

MAY 4, 2021

Through this partnership, organizations and stakeholders representing every step of the food value chain will come together to decarbonize the European food system, while maximizing other benefits such as soil health and farmer resilience. The world’s soils are the second largest carbon sink, second only to oceans. COPA-COGECA.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Here’s why Clean Energy Trust is excited about our investment in Continuum Ag , an Iowa-based startup run by farmers, for farmers, to drive the adoption of regenerative agriculture practices that improve sustainability, increase profits, and sequester carbon in the soil. Plowing or tilling soil has been done for thousands of years.

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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. In a self-perpetuating feedback loop , the warmer it gets, the more active soil microbes become. On a global scale, it could mean the planet belching up more dangerous greenhouse gases.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 21, 2024

Factors including a European shortage of available seeds and tree-stock, changing climate, changing soil conditions and low seedling survival rates are negatively impacting reforestation efforts at historical estates like Blenheim. To find out more about ForestFactory, visit [link]

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

A variety of oxidation and other technologies are currently being explored in relation to the disposal of PFAS in substrates such as landfill leachate. The EPA issued a detailed report documenting the first-ever test and verification of PFAS destruction efficiency greater than 99.99% using GA-EMS’ industrial-scale SCWO technology.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Its microbial fertilizer fixes nitrogen (moves nitrogen from the air to the soil) so that plants can use it as food. Kula Bio’s technology also boosts soil health, according to its team, helping farmers treat their land responsibly. Kula Bio has created a third, new option. Located in Somerville, Mass.,

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Despite being on the same west-facing elevation, one of those sections had been retrofitted with an exterior living wall façade, comprised of a flexible felt fabric sheet system with pockets allowing for soil and planting. Living walls can offer improved air quality, noise reduction and elevated health and well-being.

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