The ‘Unfolding Global Disaster’ Happening Right Under Our Feet

Posted by on Dec 22, 2015 @ 5:36 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: December 21, 2015

With all that’s going on in the world — from record-breaking warm spells to rapidly melting ice sheets — it’s easy to ignore something so seemingly mundane as dirt. But scientists at the University of Sheffield’s Grantham Center for Sustainable Futures suggest that we ignore dirt at our own peril. Nearly a third of the world’s arable land has been lost over the past four...

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