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Ethiopian communities are cheaply filling destructive gullies with soil, stones and branches and replanting them to stop erosion and restore farmland.
The good news is degraded soil can regain some of its lost heat protection. We can help ‘re-insulate’ the ground with practical farming methods.
Erosion is intensifying in parts of Tanzania. But there are initiatives underway to tackle this gaping problem.
As climate extremes intensify, adaptation debates favor new technologies. Terraces in the Philippines and Morocco show how people modified their landscapes to respond to past climate shifts.
Conferences that bring people of different backgrounds together and propose solutions are more likely to create change.
Urban planning can prevent gullies from forming, saving costly repairs and avoiding displacement of people.
When the soil ‘ceiling’ collapses, you end up with a hole exposing a cavity previously hidden underground.
Australia’s beloved billabongs and waterholes are in danger of filling up with eroded soil from farms, leaving little room for the aquatic animals that depend on these vital drought refuges.
Mayotte is no exception to the adage “small islands, big problems”. A newly born volcano combined with poor land management and accelerating climate change has put its fabled lagoon at risk.
Storms and flash floods often follow a heatwave.
Soil health is at the heart of new government plans for farm payments with policies to increase soil organic matter and promote winter cover.
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The global community must understand the importance of soil in order to protect it.
Soil degradation is a huge challenge for farmers around the world. But new research is showing how farmers can balance crop yields with protecting the environment.
Planting trees can sometimes be a carbon-offset box-ticking exercise, but reforestation is a long-term commitment that supports communities, promotes biodiversity and tackles the climate emergency.
Soil underpins Australia’s economy – yet since Europeans arrived, the natural asset has steadily been degraded. A new national plan aims to change that.
Soil loss in South Africa can have a negative impact on air quality and food security.
Regreening Africa works directly with 500,000 households to restore one million hectares of agricultural land.
Damage to water supply infrastructure and catchments during and after bushfires inhibits the treatment processes that normally make our water safe to drink.
Areas of the UK may lose their topsoil in little over a century according to new research.
Top contributors
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75th Anniversary Research Fellow, Soil and Agrifood Institute, Cranfield University
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Marine Science
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science, The Ohio State University
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Director, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in Environmental Change, Adelaide University
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Deputy Director-Science of Land and Water Flagship CSIRO and Honorary Professor of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, CSIRO
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Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, Lancaster University
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Professor of Biogeochemistry, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Professor of Soil Science/Principal consultant, Lancaster University
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Soil Systems Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Sydney
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Professor and Head of School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, CSIRO