The Week in Soil
Our weekly blog features the main scientific, political and cultural soil-related stories of interest from across the web over the previous seven days, available on our website and through our Twitter account every Friday morning.
12 December 2019
- Soil in election manifestos
- MEPs call for legal protection for land
- Turkey facing soil degradation
- Biological soil crusts
- Welsh govt support controlled environment farming
06 December 2019
- World Soil Day
- Soil erosion in Scotland and India
- Farmland soil has low shelf-life
- Diversity of soil organic matter important
- UK soils and sugar
29 November 2019
- Prof Jane Rickson talks soil on Radio 4
- Politicians' failure to protect soils
- Microplastics in soil alter soils
- Isabella Tree on Desert Island Discs
- Preparing soils for Spring
21 November 2019
- Pesticides
- Climate change and soils
- Cardboard and soils
- Scotland and future soils' resilience
- New tool to assess soils
14 November 2019
- Carbon storage
- Veg growing and heavy rain
- Nuclear technique to test soils
- Decline in German insects and spiders
- Multiple benefits of outdoor learning
08 November 2019
- Rice under threat
- Soil influences microbe communities
- Soil bacteria protect crops against fungi
- Biodiverse soils help with mental ill-health
- Change vegetation driers soil more
01 November 2019
- Climate change threatens South East farming
- Environment Bill passes 2nd reading
- Lake sediments increased over 4000 years
- Soil microbes and wild fire
- Future landscapes
24 October 2019
- A Scottish Council approves peat extraction
- Environment Bill 'not fit for purpose'
- Agricultural Bill reintroduced
- 1/3 of UK fresh 'cocktail' of pesticides
- Soil key to saving family farms
17 October 2019
- Understanding microplastics in soil
- Latest version of Environment Bill
- Study accurately calculates soil carbon
- World Food Day
- Growing food on moon may be possible
11 October 2019
- Adding compost increases soil carbon
- Adding fungus to tomatoes increases yield
- Military papers help soils
- Rothamsted launches dating site for papers
- Cannabis plants help soil
04 October 2019
- Social enterprise composting waste in Paris
- New soil moisture sensor
- Australia's mangroves are carbon sink
- Organic cotton T-shirt can save water
- NFU held debate on Brexit
27 September 2019
- UN Climate Summit
- Meeting of global agricultural ministers
- Soil microbes make plants resistant
- Earthworms triple after cover crops
- Labour Party focus on net zero
19 September 2019
- Carbon farming ramping up
- Soil microbes breakdown pollutants
- BBC on soil bacteria
- Worms fail in microplastic soils
- Soils changed to face earthquakes
06 September 2019
- RSPB blog on Ag Bill
- US research on soil fungal diversity
- Long-read on fungal-plant interactions
- Sustain declares Climate emergency
- All growers should test soils
30 August 2019
- World water quality crisis
- Organic gases from soils reactive
- Robots help take soil samples
- Bees exposed to lethal pesticides
- Research on soil microbes and drought
23 August 2019
- Salty soils
- Soil carbon and forest fires
- Recreate pocket peat areas
- Soil microbe patterns
- Northern Ireland soil sampling
08 August 2019
- IPCC report on climate change
- Amazon can act as carbon sink
- Recarbonisation of global soils
- 24 Hours in Farming
- US ag 48x more toxic
01 August 2019
- SSA soap box
- New environment ministers
- No deal Brexit and farming
- Food, Poverty, Health and Environment Committee
- Soil pore structure important
26 July 2019
- Nematodes in the Arctic
- Cigarettes in soils impact plants
- Children's meals are poor
- Cereal makers and soil health
- UK soil policymaking
19 July 2019
- SSA, soils and Westminster
- Aviation and soil management
- Spain will suffer desertification
- Human composting
- Animals are key
19 July 2019
- SSA, soils and Westminster
- Aviation and soil management
- Spain will suffer desertification
- Human composting
- Animals are key
04 July 2019
- Allotment soil safer
- Biochar helps soil carbon
- Iran and world soil loss
- New soil app
- Test soils in paddocks
20 June 2019
- World Day to Combat desertification
- Cut farm ammonia could save lives
- Soil biodiversity and radiation
- US farms supported to diversify
- New book on environmental policy
14 June 2019
- Guardian list for net zero
- Green Brexit
- AHDB soil health indicator
- Soil erosion in Tanzania
- Drones tracking soil loss