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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in EIN Presswire] Top 10 troubled lakes to watch this toxic algae season

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, June 5, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — As temperatures heat up, health officials and water managers are on watch for harmful algal blooms. The all-too-familiar outbreaks of toxic blue-green algae arrived earlier than usual in parts of the U.S. this year. Today, water scientists with BlueGreen Water Technologies are releasing their list of the Top 10 Troubled Lakes To Watch This Toxic Algae Season. Read more...

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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in Canary Media]Can we fight climate change by sinking carbon into the sea?

Here’s an inconvenient truth: We’ve polluted the atmosphere with so many gigatons of greenhouse gases that just slashing emissions — which we still absolutely have to do — will no longer be enough to avert the worst impacts of climate change. We’ll need to also actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that by 2050, even assuming steep emission cuts in the next few decades (and emissions have been rising, not falling), we’ll need to take out something like 5 to 10 gigatons of CO2-equivalent each year. Read more...

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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in EIN Presswire] Social Carbon Foundation approves landmark method of carbon removal from harmful algal bloom remediation

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM , March 20, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Social Carbon Foundation, manager of international greenhouse gas (GHG) standard SOCIALCARBON®, announces the approval of the first-ever carbon offset methodology to scientifically quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) emission removals from the elimination of harmful algal blooms. The Net Blue methodology, developed by BlueGreen Water Technologies (BlueGreen), eliminates harmful algal blooms and sequesters carbon dioxide (CO2) in fresh water bodies. Read more...

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[BlueGreen Water Technologies in EIN Presswire] Wake up call: Warmer winter is a bellwether for potentially explosive 2023 toxic algae season

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES, February 10, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Warmer winter temperatures have set the stage for a potentially explosive season of harmful algal blooms. NOAA’s three month outlook forecasts above average temperatures for the eastern and southern U.S. in February, March, and April, with more rain than snow in the Midwest over the same period. Read more...

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