Professor Alex McBratney there, and before him, Dr Alfred Hartemink from ISRIC World Soil Information in the Netherlands. Now I'm reliably informed that the digital Global Soil Map won't be ...

Their goal: to produce a digital soil map of the entire world. It is a daunting task. In many parts of the world, such as Africa and South Asia, knowledge of soil is sketchy at best, relying on ...

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations on Tuesday launched the Global Soil Organic Carbon Map on World Soil Day, calling for "caring the ground we walk on." Soil is a major carbon ...

A new global map reveals widespread soil contamination that could affect up to 1.4 billion people and 17% of cropland. For ...

For example, soil pH was found to be important for microbial ... development of this highly useful soil biodiversity map of the world.

Map A shows the distribution and intensity of crop production (red) and cattle grazing (green) across the world. Both have contributed almost equally to loss of soil carbon stocks, Sanderman says.

But in the process of creating a global soil pH map, scientists realized the distinction ... draw from our analysis is that the parts of the world that humans depend upon the most for agriculture ...

The team evaluated approximately 60,000 data points to build a global soil pH map. "One thing that we can draw from our analysis is that the parts of the world that humans depend upon the most for ...

Save Soil used data from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to make a map showing levels of degradation around the world in 2019. It then used an estimation from the Global ...

The second edition of the World Living Soils Forum concluded after two days of meetings and exchanges bringing together scientists, institutions, business leaders, start-ups, farmers, and ...

Every year on December 5, the world comes together to celebrate World Soil Day, a vital initiative aimed at raising awareness about the critical role soil plays in our lives. This year's theme ...