These practices also preserve soil biodiversity, improve fertility, and contribute to carbon sequestration, playing a crucial role in the fight against climate change. World Soil Day 2024 (WSD ...

Today we celebrate the ninth United Nations World Soil Day under the theme “Soils, Where Food Begins”. This celebration aims to raise awareness of the importance of healthy soils, but also to ...

World Soil Day, observed annually on Dec 5, is more than a celebration; it is a call for global advocacy and action emphasising the critical role of soil and water in sustaining life. The 2023 ...

Every year on December 5, the world comes together to celebrate World Soil Day, a vital initiative aimed at raising awareness about the critical role soil plays in our lives. This year's theme ...

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 poor condition of soil can lead to degradation, which is a pressing global environmental issue. World Soil Day is observed every year on December 5 and aims to spread awareness about the ...

In the framework of World Soil Day 2023, FAO’s GSP is calling on children and teens, from ages 5 to 14, living all around the world, to use their imagination and create a poster by kids for kids that ...

Soil is a combination of bits of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Every year on 5 December, the amazing things it does are celebrated as part of World Soil Day. Katy Jo Stanton from ...

There is a little-known celebration on Dec. 5 each year known as “World Soil Day;" no twinkly lights or tales of a large bearded man bringing gifts, but our soil does provide for us as a ...

That wafer-thin skin covering the Earth holds a quarter of the world’s biodiversity. Worms, fungi and creatures teem aplenty, at least in healthy soils. Around the world, there are some 30,000 ...

But now, he said, humanity has a chance for redemption, if people all around the world call on their governments to protect soil. “Soil is one aspect where everybody has to come together ...