When the soil ‘ceiling’ collapses, you end up with a hole exposing a cavity previously hidden underground.
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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.
Thousands of years of history tells the same story over and over: you ignore soil at your peril.
There will be increasing demands placed on our soil and water in coming years, so we need greater research into how to preserve and maintain these precious resources.
Better land use could prevent further damage to the world’s coral reefs, according to a recent study. The findings have important…
Soil erosion, land degradation and climate change threaten the health of coastal reefs and ecosystems in the western Indian…
The Great Barrier Reef is under attack from a range of enemies including climate change effects (coral bleaching, increased severe storms, and ocean acidification), pollutant discharge from the land, coastal…
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75th Anniversary Research Fellow, Soil and Agrifood Institute, Cranfield University
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Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Organisms and Environment, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Institute of Marine Science
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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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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Agriculture Flagship, CSIRO
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Professor of Soil Science, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor Environmental and Geographic Science, University of Cape Town
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Soil Systems Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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CGIAR System Organization
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Research Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Head of Monitoring, Evaluation and impact Assessment, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Director, Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
