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A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet. Jo Handelsman, Yale Univ. Press (2021)

Emma Marris, Nature Book Review January 24, 2022
To ensure food security, the world must stop letting fertile soil wash and blow away.
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Soil organic carbon sequestration: scoping study

Scottish Government December 20, 2021
What can existing datasets tell us about the ability of Scotland's soils to store carbon?
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Monitoring soil health in Scotland by land use category - a scoping study

climateXchange December 01, 2021
The strategic relevance of 13 potential indicators to monitoring soil health in the context of existing land use
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Science note: soil carbon

British Society of Soil Science October 01, 2021
Soils contain more carbon than the atmosphere and plants combined.
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Global assessment of soil pollution published

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations / UN Environment Programme June 04, 2021
New report highlights the extent and potential impacts of soil pollution
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World’s soils ‘under great pressure’, says UN pollution report

Damian Carrington, The Guardian June 04, 2021
Soils provide 95% of all food but are damaged by industrial, farming, mining and urban pollution
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