Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

By adding Forest Carbon to the catalog of Planetary Variables, including Soil Water Content, Land Surface Temperature, and Biomass Proxy data, Planet aims to expand its offerings of global analysis-ready data.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

6 differences between forestry and soil carbon offsets Jesse Klein Wed, 11/04/2020 – 01:00 Carbon offsets are a big, confusing topic. In two VERGE 20 sessions, experts dived deep into the specifics of soil carbon credits and forestry carbon credits. “We don’t really have anything comparable on the soil side.”

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

Lenniger lives in a log cabin in Goldstream Valley, a spruce-lined swale with a rolling view of the Northern Lights near Fairbanks. Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” student at the nearby University of Alaska Fairbanks, or UAF.

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Each commodity, whether grown from soil or raised in the ocean, is broken down to each stage necessary for production and distribution. Aside from the horrific impact that habitat loss has on native species, removing trees and overturning of soil releases captured carbon dioxide.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Using the GMTracker DTH data-logging software, well drilling data collected, monitored in real-time, analyzed, and reported. The data-logger automatically measures soil composition and records rock socket connections and rock fractures, so it can also be used as a reporting tool. All operations are protected by a safety radar system.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

In some cases an irrigation system (temporary or permanent) or enhanced drainage system should be considered to reduce stress conditions on the plants and to improve soil biology. Soil/Media extension layer (often described as drainage layer) to mimic natural soil profiles and avoid anaerobe conditions in rooting zone.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 21, 2023

The Nature Conservancy and Wageningen University are leveraging the high spatial and temporal resolution Basemaps to map roads, selective logging, and woody vines for improved carbon sequestration strategies. This includes helping better understand land use conversion in southern Africa, as well as supporting Cambodia in its UNFCCC reporting.

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Grist

MAY 18, 2021

The term refers to actively pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and storing it in soils, plants, rocks, and within the Earth’s crust. Earth is rich with existing carbon “sinks” that already draw down CO2, like forests, soils, and wetlands. Or they can pay to protect a forest from logging.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

Create a food waste log to keep track of where your food waste comes from, how much and at what frequency. Another way to save food from entering landfills is by starting a composting program to turn food waste into useful, nutrient-rich soil. Food waste reduction programs can be organized into four steps: Conduct A Food Waste Audit.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

These provided the workforce needed to log the “taiga” forests and mine coal from the central Siberian region now known as the Kuzbass, the main Russian coal mining region currently supplying overseas markets. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2021

These provided the workforce needed to log the “taiga” forests and mine coal from the central Siberian region now known as the Kuzbass, the main Russian coal mining region currently supplying overseas markets. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air, and humans?’ Into this destruction stepped John Muir.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It knew it didn’t have permission to carve a deep, water-logged trench through the pristine land, and it knew it didn’t have permission to pull an oil pipeline through the swampy soil in that trench. . The pipeline company knew it didn’t have permission to rip down centuries-old cypress trees and literally grind them into a pulp.

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 7, 2020

You could use reclaimed timber, logs, rocks, reclaimed bricks, clay, or even straw and mud to make edges. Permeable patio areas, which allow rainwater to reach the soil below, are best – for example: Wooden decking made from reclaimed timber. Reclaimed bricks laid directly onto the soil, or onto gravel.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2020

If you plant trees on marginal land, grow them, harvest them, and then replant them — you can actually improve the soil quality of that marginal land over time. When trees die some of the carbon is released through processes of decay but a majority is converted into soil and broken down by bugs and fungi.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 22, 2021

Know your soil Perhaps the single most important thing you can do for gardening success is to understand the composition of your soil (it’s more than dirt; it’s an ecosystem!). Simply grab a soil sample kit from the gardening center or take a sample to your regional extension center. They may do well. They may not.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Trees native to this highland mosaic forest, also called Afro-alpine forest, include the African olive and the East African pencil-cedar.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Even when seed trees persist, soils can be so scorched that their life-giving nutrients actually volatilize into the atmosphere. Soil structure can be so altered that instead of absorbing water they actually repel it, rendering them far more prone to erosion. Hessburg and colleagues echoed many of these recommendations in a 2021 paper.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Related: ZHA designs sustainable expansion to China’s largest international exhibition center Nearly every surface is constructed from wood — a nod to the district that previously housed a log pond. Timber is used extensively throughout the building, including the roof frame structure, facade, spectator seats and exterior walls.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. Forest loss continues at an alarming rate. Species are being declared extinct with horrifying frequency. The Global Footprint Network calculates that human civilisation is now "using nature 1.75

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2024

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. The department also uses satellite data to direct resources where needed most.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

With no large blue sightings at Rodborough Common logged for 150 years, in 1979 officials declared the species extinct in Britain. Of Britain’s nine types of blue butterflies, the large blue, with a wingspan surpassing two inches, remains the biggest and rarest.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Soil quality and quantity are maintained. Besides conserving the forest, its wildlife , soil and landscape, trees are imperative for the maintenance of local water resources.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 23, 2020

Once the home’s clay envelope was dry and considered sturdy enough, an exterior layer of packed soil, approximately 10 to 15 centimeters thick, was applied to the building. A natural rock pathway with a log edging leads up to the house. This layer enabled the planting of a lush green roof that rolls over the entire structure.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Lithos - the Greek word for stone - uses proprietary software to custom-deploy the basalt based on variables such as soil chemistry and crop nutrition. Usually, they're more excited about this because we replace the limestone they're using to de-acidify their soil and restore nutrients with something that can do a better job.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. That is a land size equivalent to 10.3 million American gridiron football fields or 8.4 million soccer fields.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The habitat also features heated caves and logs, pools and misters to replicate the hot and steamy environment of their native Indonesia. Other factors to take into account for habitat design are soils and plantings that are safe for the Komodo dragons and allow for natural behaviors.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2024

In northwestern Montana’s Swan Valley, a pile of about 100 small logs, 10 feet long or so, sits neatly stacked, ringed by berry bushes, a few white wildflowers, and towering larch trees. Surrounding the logs are several acres of U.S. Digging vaults in clay or silty soil, away from groundwater, is thought to be best practice.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 8, 2023

For example, when a forest—which naturally absorbs and stores carbon dioxide as trees grow—is logged and converted to grazing or agricultural land, GHGs are released as trees decompose. Additional emissions result from tilling soils and applying fertilizers for agricultural production.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Holganix Getting in at the ground level, Holganix is a company on a mission to continually develop natural products to enhance the soil and the resulting crops. It also produces coffee logs that are fuel for wood stoves, pizza ovens and other uses. Bio-bean makes use of discarded grounds by converting them into biofuels.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 8, 2021

“Each pit is surrounded by de-vegetated areas of muddy soil ,” Justin Wilkinson, a grant specialist at Texas State University, wrote for NASA’s Earth Observatory. While no one knows the exact acreage destroyed by mining, ranching, logging and other invasive industries in Peru , some estimates put it at 64,000 acres.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Even in the denser urban areas it was usually possible to find enough soil for the nodes to be buried in holes approximately five by ten centimeters deep. The preference was always to bury the nodes as this ensures better reception of the seismic waves as well as avoiding damage or loss.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

And for decades, the Earth’s forests, along with oceans and soil, have sucked roughly a third back in, creating a vacuum known as the land carbon sink. Over the study period, these cold-loving tree species have lost 36 percent of their carbon-sinking capacity as logging, wildfires, pests, and drought devastated the land.

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Grist

JANUARY 9, 2025

Its supposed to be the rainy season in Southern California, but the last time Los Angeles measured more than a tenth-inch of rain was eight months ago, after the city logged one of the soggiest periods in its recorded history. When you wring out this more powerful sponge, it sends down heavier rains than before.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 15, 2021

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

Epochs are typically stretches of several million years designated by clues left in the soil, rocks, and fossils. A press release shared by the committee’s chair said the alleged vote violated the group’s rules and that an inquiry into annulling it was being launched.

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