#biomass — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #biomass, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/genevieve-r-19341240/
'Genevieve R.
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'Governance | #NZ #Coastal Policy enthusiast | Writer | Public #Health advocate | Sepsis Survivor | ADHD Advocate | Busy unique mind | Proudly #WOKE| All Strong Views my own (proudly)'#Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
'When I first became involved in advocating for eastern #tarakihi in 2019, #Fisheries New Zealand’s own #science estimated the eastern stock had fallen to around 16% of its unfished #biomass—well below the 20% soft limit and nowhere near the #Harvest Strategy Standard target of 40%.
'Six years later, we’re paying substantially more at the checkout, yet the eastern stock remains well under a rebuilding-plan target.
'Recent projections suggest it is still hovering around the lower management thresholds, with recovery far from assured under current catch settings.
'That should concern every New Zealander.
We’ve somehow normalised the idea that a fish can become increasingly expensive while remaining chronically depleted. Consumers are paying more, commercial operators continue #fishing, and we’re repeatedly told the #fishery is being managed “#sustainably”.'If this is what #sustainability looks like, perhaps we need to rethink what the word means.
'A truly #sustainable fishery shouldn’t require decades of rebuilding while the stock remains well below the level our own management system says it should achieve. It shouldn’t leave us debating whether 10–20% of the original spawning biomass is acceptable, and it most certainly shouldn’t have us celebrating modest improvements while remaining nowhere near the target.'
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'Perhaps the real question isn’t why the price has risen, it’s whether we’ve convinced ourselves that #depletion has become an acceptable definition of sustainability.
#fisheries #rma #cma #rcep #fisheriesact #protect #enhance #restore -
#Biomass is organic matter derived from plants and animals—such as wood, agricultural crops, and waste—that can be burned directly for heat or converted into #Renewable #Biofuels and #Biogas.
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#GFZ:
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Kleine Rodungsflächen führen zu massiven Kohlenstoffverlusten in tropischen Wäldern
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".. Daten stammen aus der Klimawandelinitiative RECCAP-2 und dem Projekt „Biomass“ der .. ESA. ..""Kleine Rodungen (< 2 ha) machen nur 5 % der gestörten Waldfläche aus, sind jedoch für 56 % der Netto-Kohlenstoffverluste verantwortlich."
4.2.2026
#Biomass #Biomasse #EO #Erdbeobachtung #ESA #Klimawandel #Kohlenstoff #Raumfahrt #RECCAP2 #Rodung #SpaceFlight #Tropen #Wald
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How to Download and Visualize NASA-ISRO NISAR Data in QGIS | Step-by-Step Tutorial [shared]
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https://youtu.be/oRTplHPf_T0 <-- shared video tutorial
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https://github.com/opengeos/qgis-nasa-earthdata-plugin <-- shared NASA Earthdata Plugin for QGIS
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https://science.nasa.gov/mission/nisar/ <-- shared #NASA NISAR mission home page
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H/T Qiusheng Wu
#remotesensing #earthobservation #tutorial #training #onlinelearning #download #visualisation #NISAR #opendata #satellite #NASA #Earthdata #QGIS #plugin #SAR #icemovement #ecosystems #vegetation #biomass #naturalhazard #risk #hazard #NetCDF #spatialvisualisation
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Integrating Characteristic Arctic Vegetation In A Land Surface Model Improves Representation Of Carbon Dynamics Across A Tundra Landscape
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG009039 <-- shared paper
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[ https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091839 <-- shared paper ]
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#tundra #arctic #vegetation #spatialanalysis #arcticwarming #warming #climate #carbon #carbonsink #carbonsource #carbondynamics #carboncycle #EnergyExascale #earthsystemmodels #ESM #model #modeling #plant #functional #PFT #Alaska #Seward #Peninsula #casestudy #biomass #ecosystem #remotesensing #scaling #drone #aircraft #insitu #GIS #spatial #sampling #earthsystem -
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
US holding secret peace talks with Moscow -- Killzone: Devastating scale of Russia's drone terror against civilians laid bare in new report -- Russian troops spotted north of Pokrovsk, military confirms -- TNT shipments to Ukraine at stake as NATO supplies diverted to Israel for Gaza bombardment ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/11/wednesday-november-19-2025/
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Comfrey: Its History, Uses & Benefits
"Paul Alfrey from the Balkan Ecology Project gives the history of comfrey along with its multiple uses (as medicinal, biomass, mulch) and how he has created a comfrey patch to increase fertility in their market garden."
https://www.permaculture.co.uk/articles/comfrey-its-history-uses-benefits/#PermaCulture #Comfrey #Mulching #BioMass #Gardening #MedicinalPlants #SolarPunkSunday
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#Sweden - Removal of #PFAS from water by #AquaticPlants
Maria Greger, Tommy Landberg
February, 2024Highlights
• High total biomass is important plant trait for high PFAS accumulation from water.
• Higher PFAS accumulation in shoot than roots with time.
• Degradation of PFAS with root peroxidases and laccases.Abstract:
"We have found that aquatic plants can reduce the content of perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) within a short period of time. The aim of this study was to determine the variation in the uptake of PFAS from contaminated water by various #wetland plant species, investigate the effect of #biomass on PFAS removal, and determine whether laccases and peroxidases are involved in the removal and degradation of PFAS. Seventeen emergent and one submerged wetland plant species were screened for PFAS uptake from highly contaminated lake water. The screening showed that #EriophorumAngustifolium, #CarexRostrata, and #ElodeaCanadensis accumulated the highest levels of all PFAS. These species were thereafter used to investigate the effect of biomass on PFAS removal from water and for the enzyme studies. The results showed that the greater the biomass per volume, the greater the PFAS removal effect. The plant-based removal of PFAS from water is mainly due to plant absorption, although degradation also occurs. In the beginning, most of the PFAS accumulated in the roots; over time, more was translocated to the shoots, resulting in a higher concentration in the shoots than in the roots. Most PFAS degradation occurred in the water; the metabolites were thereafter taken up by the plants and were accumulated in the roots and shoots. Both peroxidases and laccases were able to degrade PFAS. We conclude that wetland plants can be used for the purification of PFAS-contaminated water. For effective purification, a high biomass per volume of water is required."
Read more:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030147972302683X#SolarPunkSunday #PFAScontamination #ForeverChemicals #PollutionSolutions #WaterIsLife #PFASPollution #Remediation #PFASRemoval #PFASRemediation
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Shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over 6 decades
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323675
#ycombinator #Diatoms #Dinoflagellates #Biomass #Latitude #Phytoplankton #Biogeography #Ocean_temperature #Plankton -
Holding #Drax accountable
via @Freedom_Press
Aug 12thDespite raid on #CimateCamp, #activists link up with #Mississippi fence-line community
"Climate campaigners this weekend Saturday (August 10) held an online conversation with community activists in #GlosterMississippi, who shared their experiences of resisting a polluting #WoodPellet factory owned by UK multinational Drax. The UK climate camp, planned to take place last weekend near Drax power station, was cancelled after a pre-emptive raid by police.
"The 22 arrestees have since been released, but the police impounded essential infrastructure, effectively shtting down the event. Nevertheless, the event went ahead after moving indoors.
"Gloster is a low-income, mostly Black community in Amite County, #Mississippi. In 2015, #AmiteBioEnergy, a part of the #DraxGroup, started making wood pellets in Gloster. #Biomass wood pellets are compressed dried wood chips and sawdust, compressed into pellets at high pressure. The Drax factory received a permit to emit up to 25 tons of harmful #AirPollutants and 249 tons of volatile organic compounds (#VOCs) per year.
"But since 2016, Drax has consistently gone over these limits, in one instance being fined $2.5 million. This was the largest in a much longer series of fines for environmental violations by various companies operating wood pellet factories in the US.
"In the online event, the campaigners from Mississippi discussed the physical and mental health effects of persistent #AirPollution, including the highest rate of mortaility from heart disease in the state of Mississippi. The community has no local medical doctors, and residents have to spend hours commuting to access medical.
"According to local resident Jimmy Brown, 'our legislators aren’t doing us any justice because they didn’t inform any citizens about what going on, so that’s up to us'.
"Activists on both sides of the Atlantic vowed to hold Drax accountable. 'We cannot let them continue to put profit over the planet and over our people', said Gloster organiser Krystal Nicole Martin, 'they need to leave tour community'.
~ Jane Alison
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/12/holding-drax-accountable/
#ProfitOverPeople #CorporateColonialism #SaveCanadianForests #SaveUKForests #SaveCaliforniaForests #SaveTheForest #OldGrowthForsts #Greenwashing #EnvironmentalActivism #BigForest #DraxPowerStation #SilencingDissent
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Energising Europe’s Future with Bioenergy [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/energising-europes-future-with-bioenergy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #bioenergy #biomass #fossilsfuels #heatingsystems #promoted
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Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants [phytomining]
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html <-- shared media article
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[I know that the USGS has some direct research ongoing in this regard; bioremediation has been around for a long time, in a sense this is a natural extension (pun very much intended)]
#farming #mining #phytomining #tailings #bioremediation #geology #mining #mininggeology #minerals #nickel #plants #vegetation #smelter #accumulating #biology #flora #agromining #metals #heavymetals #biomass #hyperaccumulators #bioore #naturalresources #minerals -
Is this a viable #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Bioremediation concept or am I missing something?
1: Plant #Bamboo. Grows fast. Ideal high-quality porous #Biomass for step 2.
2: Produce #ActivatedCarbon & #Biochar. Ideal filtering material for step 3.
3: Load the carbon with nutrients in a #WaterFilter placed in a #River. Reduces #Eutrophication & produces #FreshWater and loaded carbon for step 4.
4: Use nutrient-loaded carbon as a #SlowRelease #Organic #Fertilizer. #Soil for step 1. -
A consortium of #algae and #bacteria boosts the production of green #hydrogen and #biomass while cleaning water.
#biofuels #water_pollution #Chlamydomonas #Microbacterium #Bacilluscereus #Stenotrophomon
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-consortium-algae-bacteria-boosts-production.html
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Sprayed #hempcrete #hanfkalk #biomass #bauwende #nawaro #hanf #hemp #hennep #chanvre #construction #architecture with visible frame
ereasy hempcrete 🔥
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cli6np1KHnw/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
