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Last updated at 12:59 AM on May 3, 2024 (Pacific Standard Time)
"...3,000 electric buses are reportedly set to be deployed in Azerbaijan, according to local media ABC. AZ and as covered by trade agency electrive. com, whose article quotes Fariz Aliyev, the head of the Transport Policy Department of the Ministry of Digital Development & Transport of Azerbaijan..."
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"...FORT NELSON, B. C. The BC Wildfire Service has listed a wildfire reported on May 2nd in the Patry Lake area north of Fort Nelson as under control..."
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"...FORT NELSON, B. C. A wildfire has been reported directly west of Fort Nelson, according to the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS)..."
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"...With all votes cast, Brian Pyper and David Courtney have been elected to serve on the North Salt Spring Waterworks District (NSSWD) board of trustees..."
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"...And Thomas Timmins, head of energy practice for the law firm Gowling WLG, called Capital Power's decision a reminder that carbon capture technology is still new. "It is not where the proponents of the technology might wish it were," Timmins said. Carbon capture separates climate-changing gases such as carbon dioxide from exhaust and sequesters it deep underground..."
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"...Many rural municipalities in Saskatchewan lifted fire bans as continued snow and rainfall managed to ease wildfire concerns, for now..."
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"...For a second straight year, the wildfire season started fierce and prompted evacuations in parts of the province..."
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"...Maui officials failed to activate sirens that would have warned the entire population of the approaching flames. That has raised questions about whether everything was done to alert the public in a state that possesses an elaborate emergency warning system for a variety of dangers including wars, volcanoes, hurricanes and wildfires..."
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"...Ottawa released its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report on Thursday, less than a day after a major carbon capture and storage project was scrapped by Edmonton-based Capital Power..."
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"...Since public land cannot accommodate the needed tree plantings, the program was created with the goal of getting private landowners involved..."
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"...A storm system dumped heavy rain in Montgomery County, on the northern edge of Harris County and Houston. Officials in Montgomery County issued a voluntary evacuation order and said roads were closed because of flooding along the San Jacinto River..."
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"...In 2007 Summerside purchased the first renewable energy from the West Cape Wind 99 megawatt wind farm in PEI..."
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"...WASHINGTON (AP) Exxon Mobil's $60 billion deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources on Thursday received clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, but the former CEO of Pioneer was barred from joining the new company's board of directors..."
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"...Scott MacDougall of clean energy think tank the Pembina Institute says that's probably because of uncertainty over the future value of carbon credits and the political fate of carbon pricing..."
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"...Jon Stika is a writer, agronomist, and former soil health instructor with the USDAs Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)..."
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"...There's a long list of known ways in which wildfire smoke can negatively affect corn and other crops, but could the overall effect of the smoky haze in summer potentially be positive for yields? It's a complex question to answer, says Dan Quinn, extension corn specialist with Purdue University, in this Corn School episode recorded. ..."
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Recent peer-reviewed papers relevant to the latest news and opinion.
"...Moreover, by replacing fossil fuels with clean energies, more energy efficiency and less environmental consequences can be achieved because fossil fuels cause air pollution leading to acid rain, eutrophication, damage to forests, and harm to wildlife..."
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"...Soil erosion is a destructive consequence of land degradation caused by deforestation, improper farming practices, overgrazing, and urbanization..."
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"...At the initial stage of the formation of the Russian carbon market, only reliable and transparent projects should be allowed to be implemented (reforestation and afforestation with mixed species; improved forest management of managed forests; management of previously unmanaged forests; restoration of wetlands/grass ecosystems; conservation of soil carbon of agricultural lands; biochar application to soils)..."
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"...Soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics along land-use changes influences the terrestrial and global carbon cycle, the climate, soil fertility, agricultural productivity, and food security..."
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"...Model-based sludge pre-treatment and biogas upgrading strategies were developed and evaluated in terms of mass, energy, and greenhouse gas emission balance..."
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"...Yet human impacts to lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands and groundwater are dramatically reducing biodiversity and robbing critical natural resources and services from current and future generations..."
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"...In addition, investment on waste disposal is not economical; however, recycling of the same waste for renewable energy production is favorable in the economic and social development of the society in an eco-friendly manner..."
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"...Utilization of biochar has made substantial breakthroughs in increasing agricultural productivity, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, sequester atmospheric carbon into the soil, reducing bioavailability of environmental contaminants, and subsequently becoming a value-added product sustaining bioeconomy..."
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"...Biodegradable waste utilization like agricultural and forestry residue, nonedible plant material is promising, economical, and environment-friendly substitutes for fossil fuels..."
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"...We examine quantitative methods for cause-effect evaluation of three major biodiversity loss drivers: biodiversity/habitat loss, greenhouse gases GHG warming and nutrient enrichment/eutrophication, which are pertinent to IAPS, and coastal armoring in wetlands..."
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"...Owing to the continued global environmental crisis, wastewater treatment is seen with great potential to limit the demand on freshwater usage while contributing to depletion of global warming with alternative source of renewable energy..."
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"...Wastewater (WW) and food waste (FW) from municipal sources are the primary contributors of organic waste from cities..."
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