A map predicts 95 per cent of America's soil will be degraded in less than 30 years. Only a 5 percent area is marked not degraded, in an illustration by the Save Soil movement, which shows all other ...

Due to human-caused pressures and global warming, some soils in Europe's Mediterranean region are reaching what the researchers refer to as 'critical limits for their ability to provide ecosystem ...

Biochar is a form of charcoal (mostly carbon) produced by heating organic matter in the absence of oxygen, a process called pyrolysis. This avoids the production of carbon dioxide and locks up the ...

Microbial degradation of pesticides in soil is an increasingly important strategy for mitigating environmental contamination and protecting ecosystem health. Diverse microorganisms, including bacteria ...

The idea of biodegradable plastics sounds good at first. However, very little is known about how they are degraded in the soil and how this is influenced by climate change. In two recent studies, soil ...

Nima Shokri receives funding from European Commission for the AI4SoilHealth project. One-third of the Earth’s land surface is already degraded. The UN estimates that more than 2.6 billion people are ...

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, ...

Europe’s Mediterranean countries produce a significant portion of the world’s wines, olives, nuts and tomatoes. But research shows that the region’s farms and orchards are the most susceptible in ...