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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.


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?


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


Science note: soil carbon

  •   British Society of Soil Science
  •   October 01, 2021

Soils contain more carbon than the atmosphere and plants combined.


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


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