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"...Saturday is Writ Drop Day, signalling the official beginning of the Oct. 19 provincial election campaign, and party leaders are getting a jump on sharing their platforms..."
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"...Crews completed filling the recently repaired pipe on Thursday night. Now, water quality samples have been sent off to the lab for analysis..."
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"...The Old Man Lake wildfire near Sooke is the only one currently burning on Vancouver Island. Its a region of the province that this year saw a drastic drop in blazes in the backcountry..."
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"...WINNIPEG Manitoba's government says it will encourage the development of renewable energy in the province while acknowledging fossil fuels aren't going away any time soon..."
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"...HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The owner of the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant said Friday that it plans to restart the reactor under a 20-year agreement that calls for tech giant Microsoft to buy the power to supply its data centers with carbon-free energy..."
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"...DETROIT (AP) The federal government has stopped sending hazardous waste to a Michigan landfill from Ohio, a ripple effect after a judge intervened in a different matter and suspended plans for waste shipments from New York state, officials said Friday..."
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"...Guilbeault also said that he would like to negotiate an agreement on biodiversity, "for which Environment and Climate Change Canada is prepared to make an additional contribution of $100 million," and "this sum would be in addition to the $220 million currently being negotiated with Natural Resources Canada. "..."
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"...TOKYO (AP) Japan and China announced Friday that they have reached a deal resolving their disputes over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean and Beijing's subsequent ban on Japanese seafood..."
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"...Kananaskis Improvement District (KID) is planning to build fireguards to help shield area housing and infrastructure from wildfire..."
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"...KYIV, Ukraine (AP) The European Union pledged on Friday to lend Ukraine up to 35 billion euros ($39 billion) as part of a loan package organized by the Group of Seven major industrial nations, as it seeks to help the country rebuild its economy and its war-shattered power grid..."
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"...Ukraines Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources said the pollution was a result of the burning of peatlands and other wildfires in the region combined with autumn temperature fluctuations..."
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"...The report is detailing the decisions behind the corn-crop destruction on farmland purchased by the Region this summer..."
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"...While Africa is responsible for a small fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions, it is among the most vulnerable to extreme weather events, the World Meteorological Organization said earlier this month. In sub-Saharan Africa, the cost of adapting to extreme weather events is estimated between $30-50 billion annually over the next decade, the report said. It warned that up to 118 million Africans could be impacted by extreme weather by 2030..."
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"...The main aim is to help Ukraine decentralize its power grid, and to become less reliant on the big power stations that make easier targets for Russian forces. Around 260 missiles rained down in a major attack on energy infrastructure late last month..."
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"...Jay delves into the critical aspects of the industry, including decarbonization, digitization, grid resiliency, urbanization, and safety for both utility employees and customers..."
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Recent peer-reviewed papers relevant to the latest news and opinion.
"...These strategies include the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices such as conservation tillage, precision farming, integrated pest management, and agroforestry, which aim to minimize pollutant emissions while enhancing agricultural productivity and ecosystem resilience..."
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"...Given this, this study conducts an analysis oriented to food key ingredients considered essential in human nutrition, namely: proteins, ?-carotene as a precursor of vitamin A, and polyunsaturated fatty acids (docosahexaenoic and eicosapentaenoic acids), using life cycle assessment (LCA) linked to the planetary boundary structure, under nine indices: climate change, biosphere integrity, global biogeochemical fluxes, stratospheric ozone depletion, ocean acidification, global freshwater use, land use change, chemical pollution, and atmospheric aerosol loading..."
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"...In the present scenario, scale of urbanization and industrial growth has generated unprecedented volume of wastewater, often dumped into the surface water resources..."
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"...Biogas, bioethanol, biocoal, biohydrogen and biodiesel are the principal renewable energy sources..."
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"...In the SSRS, where rapid economic growth took place without updating poorly installed wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), domestic activity indicated by human population density in the catchment was the primary factor in generating heavy phosphorous loadings (mean total phosphorus=0..."
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"...Results The decarbonized energy system with low-carbon power generation and increased electricity usage in the final energy consumption is the main pillar of GHG mitigation..."
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"...Societal motives are also identified: shallow, biogenic methane as fossil fuel (already researched since the 1890s); groundwater contamination; freshening/salinisation of aquifers; ecohydrology and nature conservation; aquifer thermal energy storage; national and regional groundwater monitoring for policy evaluation; impact of climate change and weather variability; and occurrence of brackish groundwater and brines in the deeper subsurface..."
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"...Although the Netherlands has to still meet the water quality targets of the European Water Directive Framework with regards to micropollutants, the country has made significant progress towards wastewater treatment and reuse in the last four decades..."
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"...The results compare the resources needs, the economy of the nuclear fuel cycle options, the policy of each country and the future of the nuclear power plants to achieve the reduction of the greenhouse gases..."
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"...Establishing a reverse osmosis desalination plant with a daily production capacity of 200,000 m3 significantly alleviated the resulting water crisis, yet its energy consumption and environmental impact raise several questions..."
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"...The study highlights the strategies such as 5-R principal, waste segregation at household level, use of natural gas-based vehicles, advanced modifications in the system of waste management in developing countries, utilization of compost and residue as manure, and reclamation of abandoned landfill sites to mitigate the emissions for sustainable progression of the nations..."
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"...The development of the cocoa industry not only aims to diversify agricultural export products but also aligns with the goals of sustainable economic development and greenhouse gas emission reduction to combat climate change in Vietnam..."
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