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The United Nations Organization (UNO) announced today, Wednesday 14 October, a Rapid Response Report, which has involved the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), which shows how the recovery of large natural sinks ocean (seagrass beds, mudflats and mangrove forests) can help reduce, along with halting the deforestation, 25% CO2 emissions to avoid the consequences more “dangerous” climate change. The report also urges governments to create an investment fund and take urgent measures to maintain and rehabilitate the so-called ‘carbon sinks blue’.
Two months before the next climate summit in Copenhagen, the document Carbon Blue: the role of healthy oceans in carbon capturePresented by the UN for the National Marine Month in South Africa, says these marine capture and store a quantity of carbon dioxide equivalent to half of the annual emissions from the transport sector around the world and warns that, in the currently falling at a rate seven times greater than 50 years ago. It is estimated that each year is lost between 2% and 7% of these natural sinks more powerful than the rainforests.
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| Category: Disaster protection, Environment | Tags: agriculture, blue carbon sinks, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, greenhouse gases, healthy oceans, mangrove forests, Nations Organization, Oceanographic, rainforests |
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To that German agriculture remains powerful despite the future given climate, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture (BMELV) wishes to implement preventive strategies in the field of agronomy. The BMEVL has just announced the creation within the framework of its program to support innovation, a new directive for promoting the selective cultivation of plants.
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The new system is based on the diffusion equations and has emerged as an effective and easy to precede the suffering soil erosion under tillage.
A research team from the University of Cordoba, composed by Francisco Jimenez Hornero, Juan Vicente Giraldez, Ana Laguna, Jorge Jimenez Homer, has developed a new software tool for predicting the progress of erosion in agricultural soils.
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 The polyethylene derived oil is heavily used in agriculture although its biodegradation in the environment can take hundreds of years. From 2010 its use should be restricted in several areas, and farmers now looking for alternatives and cost effective to replace it.
The Center for Research and Food Technology of Aragon (CITA) performs a research project on future alternatives to the use of polyethylene in agriculture. It is used in land cover fields that are covered by a film strip of this product to protect it from weeds and reduce the amount of water needed for irrigation. This research was conducted by the CITA of Aragon in collaboration with teams of scientists from four Autonomous Communities: Rioja, Navarra, Castilla-La Mancha and Catalonia.
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| Category: Environment | Tags: agriculture, biodegradable plastics, biodegradation, bioplastic, Environment, film strip, harvesters, hat recycled fiber, irrigation, oil, pollutes, polyethylene, toxic gases |
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