March 24, 2011
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Soil & Groundwater Newsletter March 24, 2011 |
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Can biochar help suppress greenhouse gases?
Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas and a precursor to compounds that contribute to the destruction of the ozone. Intensively managed, grazed pastures are responsible for an increase in nitrous oxide emissions from grazing animals’ excrement. Biochar is potentially a mitigation option for reducing the world’s elevated carbon dioxide emissions, since the embodied carbon can be sequestered in the soil. Biochar also has the potential to beneficially alter soil nitrogen transformations. Laboratory tests have indicated that adding biochar to the soil could be used ... |
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EPUK asks Defra not to wash their hands of contaminated land
Environmental Protection UK has called on the government to strengthen the driver for local authorities to act under the contaminated land regime and to steer the development of delivery tools in response to Defra`s consultation on proposed new statutory guidance. The contaminated land regime was introduced in 2000 in England and 2001 in Wales. It places statutory duties on local authorities to identify and remove unacceptable risks to human health and the environment. Progress under the regime has been inconsistent with some authorities reporting good progress in assessing their regions ... |
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