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💧🔬 From lab experiments to real-world scenarios like seawater and wastewater, authors delved deep into how uranium-232 and americium-241 bind with microplastics. The findings? ⏭ Temperature boosts adsorption efficiency, revealing pH-dependent trends. But it gets more complex in environmental waters, with competitive adsorption and actinide speciation at play. 🌊 There is also a fascinating interaction between two emerging pollutants: #radionuclides and #microplastics. Read here: https://lnkd.in/gQecg4hM #WaterPollutants #EnvironmentalScience

40% — A new study shows that landfills in the United States are emitting methane at levels at least 40% higher than previously reported, with leaks accounting for 90% of all measured methane emitted from landfills. We can do better - for starters let's stop sending food waste to landfills and divert to digesters to capture and use the methane for the good, eliminate the emissions and turn this waste into a resource. #zerowaste #zeroemissions

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When my mom passed last month, we chose aquamation (water cremation) as it is much kinder to the plant - producing 10x less carbon dioxide than traditional cremations. One traditional cremation creates an average of 534 pounds of carbon dioxide, one scientist told National Geographic in 2016. If we consider that a gallon of gas (weighing 6.3 lbs) produces about 20 pounds of carbon dioxide - that really puts things in perspective. Read more in my latest blog post at https://lnkd.in/gfZvYGzY #EnvironmentalJustice #SocialEnterprise #SocialImpact #SocialResponsibility

Here's a recent talk I gave encouraging folks in agriculture to prepare for energy and materials constraints, inspired by Nate Hagens and many others. It's not a sexy topic, but we need to come to terms with biophysical limits to energy production. #regenerativeagriculture is our best tool for navigating the future.

Thank you Brian Dougherty for sharing your thoughts and insights into #regenerativeag and its impact in reducing energy needed to produce our food. We have been working on helping close the loop to circular food production. Understanding that CEA is typically not associated with regenerative ag we ask you to consider how it can help close the loop on locally grown foods. Many regions around the world have limited growing seasons for specific crop types. Even in regions people deem to be prime agricultural locations can only produce specific crops during specific seasons and rotate to produce year round. With our system we use local unused resources to power the facility (biomass, wood ships, biosolids). We also work with local farmers and community to help store food once harvested to ensure it maintains its nutrient value and reduce food waste. The ideal location for our systems are near multi crop agricultural areas including fruit tree, field crops and animals to provide the right feedstock for our waste to energy system that also produces benefital #biochar to build back soil health. Working with local farms we can shorten supply chain, increase soil health and provide the food the community needs locally. We need to come together and as Brian pointed out provide local solutions for global problems by utilizing our unused resources properly.

How to Test for Carbon Monoxide: A Must-Read Informational Article https://vist.ly/wnfs

One of the best Graphical Abstracts by Zhanfei He et al 2019 where they disclosed the whole story with out-of-box creativity. It clearly says that the NC10 bacteria get most of the methane in coastal sediments. Methane oxidizing bacteria don't get any as they are present at the surface soil level. Researchers need to be able to simplify the concept devoid of jargons and present the idea to laymen to understand with ease. https://lnkd.in/gZruamAE #Researchmanagement #sciencewriting #graphicalabstract

Trees are awesome. We all know that, right? Valuable in their own right- not just for their wood, which (when protected from rotting) stores CO2. But did you also know that trees are massive emitters of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)? Precursors for the production of ground level ozone- a toxic pollutant that shortens people's lives? Trees, and other green plants, release huge amounts- 600 million tonnes per year globally- of isoprene. Isoprene, aside from being the monomer for natural rubber and an important chemical building block for numerous life-giving molecules, is also a suspected human carcinogen. And it, like many other VOCs, reacts with NOx- itself produced from N2 and O2 whenever we burn stuff (and during lightning strikes) to produce ground level ozone. Here's why, conclusively, this is NOT a problem. And this excellent video comes with a warning: a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing- and when you're looking for something when doing research, you will likely find it, whether it's relevant or not. https://lnkd.in/ewC87Yea