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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

FAO, marking World Soil Day, launched a comprehensive global map showing the amount of carbon stocks in the soil. StockSnap via pixabay The world's soils act as the largest terrestrial carbon sink ...

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 ...

When seeds are planted beneath the soil they enter a new world—a world farmers have long ... “SmartFirmer will give you a row-by-row high-resolution map like you’ve never seen.” ...

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 ...

But soil wraps the world in an envelope of life: It grows food, regulates the climate and makes the planet habitable. "What stands between life and lifelessness on our planet Earth is this thin ...

The United Nations warns that, carry on as we are with damaging farming methods, and much of the world’s soil could be useless within just 60 years. No soil, no food. Game over. It’s a ...