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Biodiversity financing gap stems from lack of understanding, says Allianz

Environmental Finance

The biodiversity financing gap is mainly caused by a lack of understanding of the "price tag" for ecosystem services, with the value of soil being particularly poorly understood, according to a research note by Allianz.

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Rewilding British farms is bringing back threatened species, storing carbon and growing hope

Corporate Knights

If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. Rewind 23 years and this place was a debt-ridden, subsidy-dependent farm, its already poor soil made worse by intensive agricultural practices. increase in soil carbon.’ The birdsong is unreal.

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Three sustainable fuels that could be the future of green aviation

Corporate Knights

If you look to crop and forest residue and leave just the right amount behind to promote good soil quality, you could replace a fairly high percentage of jet fuel,” he says. Saville says that biomass, made from algae, crop residues, animal waste, forestry residue and municipal waste, could also have big potential as an aviation fuel. “If

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IoT news of the week, February 11, 2022

Stacey Higginbotham

Apple this week indicated that it’s working with law enforcement in these situations, as each AirTag has a specific serial number that can make clear to police whose Apple account is associated with the hidden tag. Apple ) — Kevin C. Actually, look to Mars, where the Curiosity rover is trundling along on degrading wheels.

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IoT news of the week for June 9, 2023

Stacey Higginbotham

Look, I’m as excited by Bluetooth as the next person, but I don’t know if we need yet another satellite network floating above us to provide a network that we can already create with phones and specialized tags today. The company plans to generate an annual map of the Earth’s surface that provides centimeter-level accuracy.

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Mercurial matter: Puzzling out PFAS removal in landfill

Envirotec Magazine

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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7 EcoHacks to Treat Every Day Like Earth Day

3BL Media

Just fill the clean glass jar with soil and plant a succulent. If you have any ecohacks you want to show off, tag us on TikTok or Instagram. -Reuse a glass yogurt jar as a planter for a succulent. Use old bottles or jars as planters or to propagate plants in water. Try EcoHacks On for Size.

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