Live Breaking News & Updates on Werktuigendagen Oudenaarde

The key to averting environmental catastrophe is right beneath our feet
by Claire Asher on 1 June 2021
Billions of years ago, the first soils served as a cradle for terrestrial life. Today, the land beneath our feet underpins a multitrillion-dollar, global agricultural industry and provides food for nearly 8 billion humans, along with countless wild and domestic species. But soils are in global crisis.
We are now living in the “danger zone” for four of the nine planetary boundaries: climate change, biodiversity, land-use change, and biogeochemical flows. All four are intimately linked to soil health. Soils hold 80% of all the carbon stored on land. ....

United States , United Kingdom , Jonathan Leake , Werktuigendagen Oudenaarde , Jonathan Martlew , Selena Bennett , Jonathan Sanderman , Paul Hallett , Thomas Shahan , Jethro Tull , Johan Rockstr , Rob Griffiths , Simon Oakley , Franklin Roosevelt , Information Centre , Ecosystem Services , Oregon Department Of Agriculture , Mcgill University , Woodwell Climate Research Center , International Soil Reference , Agriculture Organization , Uk University Of Aberdeen , Cornell University , University Of Sheffield , Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds , Proceedings Of The National Academy Sciences ,