#SOIL

@ravr19.bsky.social

2 hours ago

From slogan to system: a sensing‑enabled view of soil health – Soil & Landscape Science Lab

A new paper in the journal SOIL treats soil health as a soil‑system property and puts sensing at the centre of how we measure it: soil.copernicus.org/articles/12/...
🧪🌏🔬 #soilscience #soil

What that means for monitoring, policy and local management? See here: ravr19.github.io/slsl_blog/po...

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The Soil & Landscape Science Lab

@slsl-curtinuni.bsky.social

2 hours ago

On soil health and the pivotal role of sensing Abstract. Soil underpins the functioning of all terrestrial ecosystems and human societies, yet its accelerating degradation demands urgent action. Sustainable soil management is essential to prevent ...

Soil health is everywhere, from national strategies to ‘healthy soils by 2030’, but we still lack a clear, operational way to define and measure it beyond agriculture.
🧪🌏🔬 #soilscience #soil

New paper in SOIL by PhD graduand Teresa Hu et al. offers a way forward: soil.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

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Daryl

@darylspiano.bsky.social

17 hours ago

Happy Sunday #Stunday
🌲🌳🌴🌲🌳🌴
Wonderful #Trees
#Forests
#ForestRestoration
#Nature #soil
#Birds #Bees #Butterflies #Pollinators #topsoil
#SundayYellow
#BlueSkyArtShow
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Kigyo Michio

@evanmichio.bsky.social

20 hours ago

Do androids dream of electric cows?
This one near our house gave up on raising cows.
#farmLife #soil #photography #ArtYear #wethePeople #dataCenter #anthropene #stunday #electricCows

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

@bigearthdata.ai

21 hours ago

Two kilos of soil with a Rs 68 lakh return: The Maharashtra village that struck biodiversity gold Residents of Dapur village in Maharashtra were both puzzled and excited when nearly Rs 68 lakh appeared in their Gram Panchayat bank account in November 2025. The surprise was understandable. The village had not applied for any government grant or development scheme. Yet a substantial sum had been transferred to its account. For weeks, villagers struggled to understand where the money had come from. Eventually, officials from the state biodiversity board and the forest department called a public meeting to explain. The funds, they said, had arrived through India’s Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) mechanism — a legal framework under the provisions of the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) that requires companies to share profits derived from biological resources with the communities from which they originate. The payment was linked to something seemingly ordinary: two kilogrammes of soil collected from the village. How soil led to profits Dapur lies about 50 kilometres from Nashik and has a population of roughly 5,900 according to the 2011 census, though local estimates suggest it has now grown to more than 8,000. Most residents depend on agriculture, cultivating kharif crops such as soybean and maize, along with vegetables including onions, tomatoes and beans. In 2024,...

Two kilos of soil with a Rs 68 lakh return: The Maharashtra village that struck biodiversity gold
->Down To Earth | More on "Biodiversity benefit sharing village India" at BigEarthData.ai | #Biodiversity #Soil

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Ivi Choc

@ivichoc.bsky.social

22 hours ago

#DeepSeed #food #foodSecurity #foodSystem #agriculture #climateChange #sustainability #soil #diet #economy #profit
27:08 "..the system [..] probably needs to creek pretty heavily at the seams before people really start waking up and saying, "I'm more frightened of thefuture than I am of the change."

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Ivi Choc

@ivichoc.bsky.social

22 hours ago

Why the Food System Is About to Collapse YouTube video by Deep Seed

#food #foodSecurity #foodSystem #agriculture #climateChange #sustainability #soil #diet #economy #profit

Politics or governments are in the pockets of the billionaires, they all refuse to fix the problem.
Citizens Assemblies! We need to take this in our own hands.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3um...

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Kylie Lang at Life in Rural France

@lifeinruralfrance.bsky.social

1 day ago

9 of the Biggest Gardening Mistakes Draining Your Wallet and Secretly Sabotaging Your Plants & What To Do Instead | Flipboard yourlifestylelibrary.com - I’m fairly new to gardening. Before moving to France, I had a gardener, as I really couldn’t be bothered to look after my previous garden, as I had …

flip.it/9UNFy- I’ve made all the usual mistakes and some of the unusual ones too, and it’s cost me a pretty penny in the process. #gardening #plants #soil #composting #herbs #flowers #composting #growyourown #planting #flipboardusergroup #gardentips #savemoney

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Florence 🌸🙏 🌞🥝

@greenflorence.bsky.social

1 day ago

Before you take your leaves to the green waste, read this and use the precious resource that leaves are.

Lots of good info for #being #sustainable on @learndirt.bsky.social thank you 🪱🙏

#regeneration #lovesoils #soil #planetcare #EarthCare

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Meanwhile on Earth

@meanwhileearth.bsky.social

1 day ago

Meanwhile, on Earth:
Decomposition accelerates in the March heat. Armies of bacteria break down last year's leaves into fertile soil.

#soil #bacteria #ecology

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

@bigearthdata.ai

1 day ago

Dry soils lose more carbon when warm Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript...

Dry soils lose more carbon when warm
->Nature | More on "Soil carbon loss climate warming" at BigEarthData.ai | #Soil

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Ecofriendly Beer Drinker

@ecofriendlybeer.bsky.social

1 day ago

"Here’s the new game plan in a nutshell: increase photosynthesis and transform dirt back to #soil. Properly plant native #trees. Help them attain a long, healthy life. Preserve existing trees. Get rid of lawns for native #meadows planted from seed. Stop using fertilizers and harmful chemicals."

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Hugo

@nonviolence.bsky.social

1 day ago

#Soil is a bacterial digestive byproduct. Oxygen is a bacterial waste product (via chloroplasts). #bacteria are the only primary primary producers on Earth. Plant & animal cells have evolved around #bacteria to serve them. Seeds carry all the bacteria in- & outside that fix #nitrogen & produce soil.

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Yakov Kuzyakov

@ykuzyakov.bsky.social

1 day ago

Contrasting fine root-induced rhizosphere priming effects between coniferous and broadleaved trees - Biology and Fertility of Soils The rhizosphere priming effects (RPE) influence soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition at the root-soil interface. However, whether different tree species affect the direction and intensity of RPE ha...

NEW in Biology and Fertility of Soils
Contrasting fine #root induced #rhizosphere priming effects between coniferous and broadleaved #trees
doi.org/10.1007/s003...

#SoilOrganicMatter #SoilOrganicCarbon #soil #primingeffect #CO2 #microbialbiomass #carbon #isotopes

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Hugo

@nonviolence.bsky.social

1 day ago

Inbred (or GMO cloned) mono crops, fertliser & pesticides can be efficient in terms of short term yield since we ignore the cost of killing the microbiome #soil. Smoking helps with weight loss. But only one #flood and we loose all the #food.

Growth vs Survival

Efficiency vs Resilience

#Extinction

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Kylie Lang at Life in Rural France

@lifeinruralfrance.bsky.social

2 days ago

Plants That Are Hard to Kill So Perfect For the Lazy Gardener (It's Low Maintenance Gardening at Its Best) | Flipboard yourlifestylelibrary.com - Fresh herbs, homegrown veggies, and ripe berries shouldn’t require back-breaking work or endless hours outside to grow fresh food for your family. …

flip.it/diTR_S Whether you’ve got a balcony, a small yard, or raised beds, you can grow a productive edible garden, even if you forget to water occasionally. #gardening #plants #soil #composting #herbs #flipboardusergroup #vegetableplot #homegrown #growyourown

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

@bigearthdata.ai

2 days ago

Finland's President Responds to Debate Over Hosting Nuclear Weapons on Finnish Soil

Finland's President Responds to Debate Over Hosting Nuclear Weapons on Finnish Soil
->UNITED24 Media | More on "Finland nuclear weapons hosting debate" at BigEarthData.ai | #Soil #NuclearWeapon

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

@bigearthdata.ai

2 days ago

Importance of Managing Agricultural Soils: Key to the Future of 95% of Food The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has highlighted the critical importance of properly managing agricultural soils to ensure the future of the countryside and maintain the productivity of farms in Spain. During the IV Iberian Congress of Rural Estates, Planas emphasized that agricultural lands should be considered a “living asset” that requires management based on science, technology, and sustainability. Planas underlined the vital role of rural soil, as 95% of food depends on soil quality and fertility. Therefore, it is essential to protect this resource against factors such as degradation and improper use. He also highlighted the soil’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide, which has attracted the interest of both agri-food professionals and investors. The minister warned about the underutilization of land, which poses a risk for forest fires and the proliferation of pests. Agricultural Soils At the event, Planas highlighted that up to 41% of rural soil faces degradation issues and stressed the importance of recovering abandoned lands. He expressed confidence in the Spanish agricultural sector, describing it as a global power, and reaffirmed the need to adopt responsible measures to move forward. Planas recalled President Pedro Sánchez‘s announcement about the platform Tierra Joven, which seeks...

Importance of Managing Agricultural Soils: Key to the Future of 95% of Food
->Noticias Ambientales | More on "Agricultural soil management food security" at BigEarthData.ai | #Agricultural #Food #Soil

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michael

@proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

2 days ago

Study finds function–evolution trade-off in urban park soil microbes A research team from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences made a systematic comparison of soil microbiomes in urban parks and natural forests. The results reveal that urbanization profoundly reconfigures microbial community composition, functional capacity, and evolutionary trajectories, based on.

11-Mar-2026
Study finds function–#evolution trade-off in #urban park #soil #microbes

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1119869

#science #ecology #microbiology #urbanEcology #urbanEvolution

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

@bigearthdata.ai

2 days ago

The critical role of soil moisture in compound hazards Seneviratne, S. I. et al. Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: a review. Earth Sci. Rev. 99, 125–161 (2010). Mishra, A. et al. Drought monitoring with soil moisture active passive (SMAP) measurements. J. Hydrol. 552, 620–632 (2017). Klein, C. & Taylor, C. M. Dry soils can intensify mesoscale convective systems. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 117, 21132–21137 (2020). Wicki, A. et al. Assessing the potential of soil moisture measurements for regional landslide early warning. Landslides 17, 1881–1896 (2020). Krueger, E. S. et al. Using soil moisture information to better understand and predict wildfire danger: a review of recent developments and outstanding questions. Int. J. Wildland Fire 32, 111–132 (2022). Krishnamurthy R, P. K. et al. Anticipating drought-related food security changes. Nat. Sustain. 5, 956–964 (2022). Christensen, S. A. et al. The role of drought as a determinant of hemorrhagic disease in the eastern United States. Global Change Biol. 26, 3799–3808 (2020). Zscheischler, J. et al. A typology of compound weather and climate events. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 1, 333–347 (2020). Dirmeyer, P. A. et al. Land-atmosphere interactions exacerbated the drought and heatwave over Northern Europe during Summer 2018. AGU Adv. 2, e2020AV000283 (2021). Goulden, M. L. & Bales,...

The critical role of soil moisture in compound hazards
->Nature | More on "Soil moisture climate compound risks" at BigEarthData.ai | #Soil

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RubénFC

@rubenfc82.bsky.social

2 days ago

🚜Apertura de perfiles para la caracterización edafológica de #suelos🔍.
@usaloficial.bsky.social @secs-spain.bsky.social @egu.eu @tragsa.bsky.social #soil #science #ciencia #Geochemistry #forest

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Climate, Ecology, War & More - Dr Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai

@bigearthdata.ai

2 days ago

Drought amplifies warming-induced soil carbon loss in a decade-long experiment García-Palacios, P. et al. Evidence for large microbial-mediated losses of soil carbon under anthropogenic warming. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 2, 507–517 (2021). Bossio, D. A. et al. The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions. Nat. Sustain. 3, 391–398 (2020). IPCC. Climate Change 2021—The Physical Science Basis (eds Masson-Delmotte, V. et al.) (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023). Zhou, J. et al. Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming. Nat. Clim. Change 2, 106–110 (2012). Luo, Y. Terrestrial carbon-cycle feedback to climate warming. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. System. 38, 683–712 (2007). Friedlingstein, P. et al. Uncertainties in CMIP5 climate projections due to carbon cycle feedbacks. J. Clim. 27, 511–526 (2014). Cox, P. M., Betts, R. A., Jones, C. D., Spall, S. A. & Totterdell, I. J. Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model. Nature 408, 184–187 (2000). Crowther, T. W. et al. Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming. Nature 540, 104–108 (2016). Liu, W., Zhang, Z. H. E. & Wan, S. Predominant role of water in regulating soil and microbial respiration and their responses to climate change in a semiarid grassland. Glob. Change Biol. 15, 184–195 (2009). Zhang, Z. et al...

Drought amplifies warming-induced soil carbon loss in a decade-long experiment
->Nature | More on "Warming drought accelerates soil carbon loss" at BigEarthData.ai | #Climate #Drought #Soil #Water

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Sustainable Soils Alliance

@sustainablesoils.bsky.social

3 days ago

Stay up to date with this week’s #soil news with the latest edition of #TheWeekinSoil. This edition includes concerns about SFI 🌿the effects of microplastics on soil carbon 🚯 forever chemicals in soil ⚠️ & much more.

Read it here ➡️ www.sustainablesoils.org/week-in-soil...

#SFI #PFAS #microplastics