Today, nearly 1.3 billion people – almost a fifth of the world’s population – live on “fragile” agricultural land. Just one-third of the rural poor in developing countries live on productive agricultural…
We know how much damage tsunamis can cause, we need to know more about when and where they come from.
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A year ago yesterday the Tōhoku-Oki earthquake and resultant tsunami hit the Japanese coastline, triggering the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster.
A year on, many questions are being asked about how…
It doesn’t look like much, but a lot of hopes rest on biochar.
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In our efforts to address climate change by avoiding or sequestering CO₂, we have shown a lot of interest in “engineering” solutions (such as carbon storage through pumping and storing CO2 underground…
We need to preserve and conserve our soils to protect our food supply.
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FOOD SECURITY – Soils can help us solve two of the most pressing problems of the coming decades: climate change and food shortage.
There is more fresh water in the world’s soils than in all its lakes…
