Which creates more jobs? Green or polluting industries?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Climate-friendly investments can create more jobs per dollar than polluting alternatives.
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GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Climate-friendly investments can create more jobs per dollar than polluting alternatives.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 3, 2023
But experts say these tire emissions are a significant source of air and water pollution and may be affecting humans as well as wildlife. Researchers are only beginning to uncover the toxic cocktail of chemicals, microplastics and heavy metals hidden in car and truck tires.
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Envirotec Magazine
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Surrey researcher Yendle Barwise assembling one of the pollution monitors. If you’re trying to take pollution out of the air, choose evergreen trees with smaller leaves. They studied which caught the most particles of pollution and which best allowed the rain to wash those particles safely to the ground.
GreenBiz
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Sponsored: The Global Plastics Treaty must include a financing plan that supports the countries most impacted by plastic pollution and least equipped to deal with it.
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Environmental and engineering consultancy Ricardo is applying its expertise in air quality measurement to enable local authorities across Greater Manchester to monitor the contribution to air pollution from wood burning stoves, raise public awareness of its risks, and reduce its impact on people’s health.
GreenBiz
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How efforts to flatten the curve of COVID-19 have reflected air quality in the San Francisco Bay area.
Envirotec Magazine
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In 2019, University of Utah atmospheric scientists, the Environmental Defense Fund and other partners added a new tool to their quiver of air quality monitors: two Google Street View cars, Salt Lake Valley’s roving sentinels that would detect hyper-local air pollution hotspots. from dust or ash; and methane, primarily from the landfill.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 20, 2021
Ireland’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species (whales, dolphins and porpoise) was launched last week off the South Coast of Ireland, with the goal of creating a near real-time detection model for these species and examining the impact rising ocean noise pollution is having on Ireland’s marine life.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 24, 2023
Santiago, Chile: The country hosted eight of the most polluted cities in the Americas in 2022. Key findings The top five most polluted countries in 2022 were: Chad (89.7 The region of Central and South Asia was home to eight of the world’s ten cities with the worst air pollution. annual guideline Iraq (80.1 annual guideline.
GreenBiz
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plastic treaty talks begin their crucial next-to-last round, how can we ensure the opportunity to end plastic pollution progresses in a way that is ambitious, effective and fair? As the U.N.
Envirotec Magazine
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Chris Packham is urging the public to spend 20 minutes counting stars to help build a crucial national database mapping light pollution. Artificial light pollution is one of the biggest threats to nocturnal creatures, many of which have suffered sharp population declines. Light pollution disrupts wildlife.
Envirotec Magazine
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The last decade has seen some progress with studying plastic pollution, but there are still significant challenges, such as a lack of comparability of reported results, especially when it comes to microplastic particles. Few studies of pollution by MPs have been published in Brazil, especially regarding inland aquatic areas.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2024
A Ceres report highlights what the beverage industry can do to better mitigate water quality impacts.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
‘I believe air pollution is one of the greatest public health crises of our time and that good policy can help to reverse some of its distressing implications. If a DPF is faulty, a single vehicle can produce the same pollution as a three-lane, 360-mile-long traffic jam of vehicles with compliant filters. Government.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Seaweed’s benefits as part of a superfood are well-sung but its potential to tackle the destabilization of the Earth’s natural nitrogen and phosphorous cycles deserve more attention.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2023
Experts believe that this increase will have significant air pollution implications for China and other developing countries such as India. The study seems to show that, if recent increasing ozone pollution trends continue, nighttime oxidation in China will increase further even if NOx emissions are reduced. Increased O3 and PM2.5
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
A boom in small-scale gold mining in Bolivia has raised concerns about pollution from mercury used in the mining process. Researchers are citing the health impacts on downstream villages, but the government has yet to act to stem the widespread use of the highly toxic chemical.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Five startups vying for exposure and support at Bloom 23 made rapid pitches for their tech to protect nature and boost biodiversity.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 16, 2023
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Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
“These protein-based air filtering materials should be very promising to capture multiple species of air pollutants.” They are most often made of petroleum products and glass, which leads to secondary pollution when old filters are thrown away, Zhong said.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 5, 2023
Arvia developed and refined a unique next-generation water treatment process, called Nyex Rosalox , designed to target and destroy persistent organic pollutants. Arvia’s CEO explained: “We realised that we could reduce the operating costs of water treatment by combining and refining two established technologies in one process.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2023
Environment Agency Executive Director John Leyland said: “These new enforcement powers will be an extra tool in our armoury to hold polluters to account.”
GreenBiz
JUNE 30, 2022
Kellogg is working with rice farmers to introduce a new sustainable flooding method that would substantially decrease emissions but also protect bird habitat.
GreenBiz
APRIL 26, 2024
Consumer packaged goods companies, chemical producers and the oil industry are in the crosshairs of watchdogs in Ottawa.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 22, 2023
How might the water industry be better regulated to reduce the sewage pollution that floods waterways in England and Wales? The report identified perceived failings on Ofwat’s part, in not holding water companies sufficiently to account for environmental pollution through penalties and prosecution.
GreenBiz
MARCH 11, 2022
Over 90 percent of ocean plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers. But innovative businesses are deploying low-cost, low-tech solutions to stop them.
GreenBiz
JULY 27, 2022
Big Oil is a big backer of a new school devoted to sustainability. Are they leveraging the lessons learned by Big Tobacco?
GreenBiz
JULY 25, 2023
PepsiCo, McDonald's, Nestlé and others were also featured among the "Dirty Dozen" report on plastic litter by Surfers Against Sewage.
GreenBiz
MARCH 11, 2022
Over 90% of ocean plastic waste comes from just 10 rivers. But innovative businesses are deploying low-cost, low-tech solutions to stop them.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 22, 2024
The Chamber Mead Wetlands were installed by South East Rivers Trust in the Chamber Mead local nature reserve in order to tackle sewage and road run-off pollution affecting the Hogsmill River, a chalk stream. The Secretary of State was also joined by Alan Lovell, Chair of the Environment Agency, and Defra Water Director Sebastian Catovsky.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 30, 2023
Google Maps functionality harnesses AI and aerial imagery to help businesses and cities plan solar deployments and tackle air pollution.
Envirotec Magazine
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A new study attempts to shine a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in what’s described as the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. It also revealed that more than two thirds of the planet’s plastic pollution comes from uncollected rubbish with almost 1.2
GreenBiz
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One of the world's biggest contributors to the plastic crisis has yet to pass meaningful federal regulation on plastic pollution, but a new bill may change that.
GreenBiz
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Fresh from the treaty talks in Ottawa, two new reports outline a path forward in the fight against plastic pollution.
GreenBiz
MARCH 27, 2024
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GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Cancer Alley, an 85-mile stretch along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, is home to over 200 plastic and petrochemical plants — and some of the most polluted air in the U.S.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 4, 2022
Some transit agencies are saying, "This bus is perfectly good — except for all the pollution" and doing something about it.
GreenBiz
JUNE 27, 2024
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GreenBiz
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The New York Healthy Homes Right to Know Act would require signage and labels that detail the health risks of using a gas stove.
Envirotec Magazine
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The microplastic pollution that turns up in landfill leachate has received much less attention than the stuff appearing in wastewater, and there seem to be far fewer studies exploring it. Envirotec comes across a recent summary of the situation.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 30, 2021
Using satellite data, researchers found that poor communities of color are highly exposed to toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution, largely due to diesel truck traffic.
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