Indigo said it hoped to sign up more than 3,000 growers, covering more than 1m acres this year. They will be paid $15 for every tonne of carbon dioxide that is stored underground.

…Farming practices such as minimal tilling of the soil when planting, planting cover crops in-between main crops, and crop rotation can all help the soil capture more carbon. Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air as they grow, then release it back to the air and soil as they decompose.

…Indigo says it will use satellites and image analysis to measure soil carbon sequestration and on-farm emissions. The company is also participating in a decade-long study including tens of thousands of farms to study how carbon is stored in soil.

Agritech start-up Indigo to pay farmers for soil carbon capture | Financial Times

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“Our findings buttress a growing body of scientific evidence pointing to the waters and animals of the deep sea, Earth’s largest habitat, as the biggest repository of small plastic debris,” Anela Choy, an oceanographer, researcher at MBARI and the lead author of the paper, said in a press release about the study.

The two types of microplastics that were the most prevalent in the study of the bay were polyethylene terephthalate and polyamide. Polyethylene terephthalate is used in single-use drink bottles and packaging and polyamide is used in textiles and the automotive industry.

As a contrast, researchers found very few plastic particles that are typically found in fishing gear, and found more plastics offshore than near the shore of the bay.

Monterey Bay has more microplastics than Great Pacific Garbage Patch, researchers say – SFGate

““It may be virtually impossible to remove existing microplastic from the deep sea,” he said. “But when we slow the flow of plastic from land, we can help prevent the increasing accumulation of plastic in our global ocean.”

Virtually impossible? Like cars, planes, and wifi? You know, like technology that seemed unreal until it existed?

There’s always some namby pamby nay-sayer in these articles who acts surprised when they “learn” ocean currents distribute plastic particle and plastic sinks to the bottom when it breaks up. If this is the level of awareness of these “experts,” why are they quoted as such? These are not new concepts for anyone who has taken a look at this issue while their head was outside of their own ass…

And the article never even mention how much human plastic consumption has increased over the last two decades. If you truly thought the only way to solve this problem was the reduction of the use of plastic, why wouldn’t you bring up where all of it is coming from? Why bring up stemming the tide without acknowledging that every day that goes by corporations make this problem worse for the entire planet by increasing the amount of plastic packaging they use?

It’s almost as it they have no desire to actually have an impact on the problem.

#nestlebuysscientists

The average person eats at least 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in a similar quantity, according to the first study to estimate human ingestion of plastic pollution.

The true number is likely to be many times higher, as only a small number of foods and drinks have been analysed for plastic contamination.

The health impacts of ingesting microplastic [have yet to be studied,] but they [have been known to] release toxic substances. Some pieces are small enough to penetrate human tissues, where they could trigger immune reactions [among other issues.]

…Some of the best available data is on water, with bottled water containing 22 times more microplastic than tap water on average. A person who only drank bottled water would consume 130,000 particles per year from that source alone, the researchers said, compared with 4,000 from tap water.

…The European commission’s chief scientific advisers said in a report in April: “The evidence (on the environmental and health risks of microplastics) provides grounds for genuine concern and for precaution to be exercised.”

“We are producing a lot of plastic and it is ending up in the ecosystems, which we are a part of.”

People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study finds | Environment | The Guardian

sigh….