Play the latest soil board game Dirty Matters: The Soil Game demonstrates the role of soil in meeting the challenges of a sustainable world. As soil guardians, you must restore degraded soil so that it can prevent famine, water pollution and climate breakdown. Healthy...
As soil scientists we know that of earth’s enormous volume, life depends on a very thin living skin, the soil. But across one third of our land soil is degraded and we need a paradigm shift in how the critical importance of soils is understood. We should be...
The invisible threat to the world’s food and water security, health and environment Experts are raising alarm bells about what they call an invisible threat to the world’s food and water security, health and environment. With detrimental implications for ecosystems,...
We have a broken global carbon cycle. The climate-nature crisis results from a short-circuiting of the carbon cycle through the burning of fossil fuels (about 70%) and land use change (about 30%). ‘Soils, nature and climate – now’ shows an extractive economy based on...
