A team of researchers has developed an innovative approach that maps the soil salt contentaround the world with an exceptional detail of 10 meters.

If soil degradation can’t be resolved, the risk is that ever more natural land will be converted to agriculture, deepening the world’s biodiversity crisis.

Save Soil's map, based on Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) data, shows 95 per cent of the Earth's land could be degraded by 2050.

A map of Earth reveals hotspots of soil biodiversity and regions to target for conservation. Many of these areas are currently unprotected, which suggests that it is time to rethink our soil ...

World’s Largest Soil Archive Brings History to Life Nestled in an old barn sat 8,000 mason jars filled with soil dating back to 1862. Now the plan is to revisit the 450 sampling locations ...

Children prepare to plant a sapling on World Soil Day in Gampaha, Sri Lanka on Dec. 5, 2024. Dec. 5 marks World Soil Day, a day designated by the United Nations to highlight the importance of ...

To have an impact, accelerate, and join forces for the preservation and regeneration of soils. This is the ambition of the second edition of the World Living Soils Forum, on October 8 and 9 at ...

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of soil than the people on Earth. A world in itself, soil holds minerals, organic components, and organisms and needs to be protected from ...

Regular readers of this column will know that I’m very much in favour of restoring farmed animals to our fields and bringing landscapes to life through rewilding.