#WorldSoilDay is coming & we aknowledge that soil erosion is the major threat for food security 🥘🫘. Croplands with less than 10% of global surface contribute to >50% of soil losses with 17 Billion tons. Climate change 🌧️ will aggravate this by 30%-40%. https://nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01489-x…
More extreme rainfall events mean more soil loss. In Ischia 🇮🇹 the umpteenth terrifying event. Many people lost their life. Soil loss is not a national problem anymore. Not even European. It’s a global issue. Time to act. There is enough knowledge to tackle it.
The soil microbiome as a nature-based solution for sustainable agriculture? This requires a better understanding of the complex interactions between soil microbiome, soil structure and agricultural management. https://rdcu.be/c0a4Y
EU 🇪🇺 arable lands lose more than 570 million tonnes due to different types of erosion: Water 🌊, wind 🌪️, tillage 🚜crop harvesting 🥕🌽🦠. For first time we in
#EUSO Did you ever access the beauty and knowledge of our Soil Atlases in @EU_ScienceHub? European, Africa, Latin America, Biodiversity, Circumpolar . Get them as part of European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC 2.0) in languages https://bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejss.13315…
2022 sampling campaign doubles🤎🤎!! #LUCAS22
Collected soils will be 41,000 (20,000 in 2018)🕳️📈
2,000 (1,000 in 2018) to be analysed for soil life🍄🪱
Data freely accessible: https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/lucas
In the field nearby home we saw a flock of sheep
we took kids and discovered it’s owned by a young couple
they have 1200 sheep, will spend all winter around Piedmont looking for some grass for the animals sleeping in a caravan
I found this devotion really touching. RESPECT
Tomorrow 2⃣6⃣, we make our hands 🙌 dirty 🎯 as we discuss the 5 topics addressed in the Working groups: Join the Soil erosion session to discuss the main challenges or the data session to find more on ESDAC 2.0. Pollution, carbon, monitor. Registration: https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/euso/second-euso-stakeholders-forum…
Now in the 2nd #EUSO Stakeholders forum.
Maxim Solokha (NSC ISSAR) on the current state of the #soil cover of #Ukraine following the armed aggression of the Russian Federation
Stati d’animo contrastanti. La riscoperta di Socialismo tascabile degli #OfflagaDiscoPax. Non un album, una raccolta di micro film. Mi ha fatto bene.
Geni assoluti. Grazie
1 out of 3 🇪🇺 citizens has never heard of the term biodiversity
This makes me thinking... the way to go is still very looong
My question is: what should be done? Any advice welcome😊
ps: biodiversity = 🐨🐷🐸🦊🐗🐞🪰🪱🦠🪳🐙🐬🦀🐳🐫🦃🦅🦩🍄🌴🌳🌲