World Soil Day - Soil erosion is a serious global issue affecting our ability to feed the world
Our soils are under threat from ever more intensive agriculture and climate changes
- December 05, 2019
Our soils are under threat from ever more intensive agriculture and climate changes. Extreme rainfall events such as Storm Frank in 2016 are predicted to become more common: a recent report from the Met Office suggested that there is a 34 per cent chance of somewhere in the UK breaking a rainfall record each winter. Apart from flooding, these rainfall events can cause widespread erosion on unprotected or damaged soils, loss of soil nutrients and carbon, reduced crop growth and pollution of our rivers and streams.
Find out more in Allan Lilly's article in The Scotsman
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