Hydrology

• Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. (“Montrose” or the “Company”) (NYSE: MEG) today announced it has entered into an arrangement agreement to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Matrix Solutions Inc. (“Matrix”), one of Canada’s leading environmental and engineering consulting companies.
• Founded in 1984 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Matrix is employee-owned and broadly held with 570 employees, having grown into one of Canada’s leading pure-play providers of environmental solutions.
• From its 19 office locations, Matrix serves clients throughout the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario.
• AEC Advisors, LLC acted as financial advisor to Matrix, and Borden Ladner Gervais, LLP acted as its legal advisor.

• HOUSTON, April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Third Coast Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: TCBX), ("Third Coast"), the holding company of Third Coast Bank, SSB, today announced that, in honor of Arbor Day, it has partnered with A Living Tribute, a sponsor of reforestation projects across North America, for its 2nd Annual Tree Planting Campaign.
• The campaign recognizes each of its approximately 370 employees by planting a tree in their honor.
• In 2022, Third Coast's inaugural tree planting campaign resulted in the bedding of 338 native tree seedlings in South Texas forests.
• The campaign supported the tree planting and reforestation work of both the Santa Ana and Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuges (NWR).

• According to its supply chain or manufacturing process, green technology is described as a category of technology that is thought to be environmentally beneficial.
• Additionally, when it comes to global warming, the United Nations' agenda's top priorities are "green" technology, green economics, and green lifestyles.
• As digital technology and green technology are highly interdependent, cutting-edge technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) will be crucial to the expansion of the green technology industry.
• In this report, Global Green Technology and Sustainability Market have been segmented into the following categories, in addition to the industry trends, which have also been detailed below:

• The following year, California’s Dixie Fire became the first on record to burn across the Sierra Nevada’s crest and start down the other side.
• High mountain fires can create a cascade of risks for local ecosystems and for millions of people living farther down the mountains.
• Since cooler, wetter high mountain landscapes rarely burn, vegetation and dead wood can build up, so highland fires tend to be intense and uncontrollable.

Four decades of rising fire risk

• This enabled fire managers to leave fires that move away from human settlements and up mountains to run their course without interference.
• We analyzed fire danger trends in different elevation bands of the Western U.S. mountains from 1979 to 2020.
• Over that 42-year period, rising temperatures and drying trends increased the number of critical fire danger days in every region in the U.S. West.
• In previous research, we found that high-elevation fires had been advancing upslope in the West at about 25 feet (7.6 meters) per year.

Cascading risks for humans downstream

• High-elevation fires can have a significant impact on snow accumulation and meltwater, even long after they have burned out.
• The result of these changes can be spring flooding, and less water later in the summer when communities downstream are counting on it.
• This can trigger mudslides and increase the amount of sediment sent downstream, which in turn can affect water quality and aquatic habitats.

Hazards for climate-stressed species and ecosystems

• Since they don’t burn often, their ecosystems aren’t as fire-adapted as lower-elevation forests, so they may not recover as efficiently or survive repeated fires.
• Wet mountain areas, with their cooler temperatures and higher precipitation, are often peppered with hot spots of biodiversity and provide refuges to various species from the warming climate.
• While the risk is rising fastest in the high mountains, most of the West is now at increasing risk of fires.