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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is giving soil its due. Friday, December 5, is World Soil Day, and 2015, the FAO has declared, will be the International Year of Soils.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He said they had defined 10,000BC as “a world without a human footprint”. “What we did was develop a model that could explain the current distribution of soil carbon across the globe as a ...