🌱🤒 Deutschlands #Böden geraten zunehmend unter Druck. Schwere Maschinen, Humusverlust, Trockenheit sowie hohe Nährstoffeinträge setzen ihnen zu.

Im Dossier „Böden unter Druck“bündeln wir in den kommenden Wochen aktuelle Ergebnisse und bieten Handlungsempfehlungen.
🔗 https://www.thuenen.de/DossierBoden

#Boden #Soil #Bodenkunde #Landwirtschaft #Klimaschutz

Microplastics and Soil Microbiome: Recent Trends and Future Prospects by Kanika Khanna et al, 2025

This edited book is a comprehensive collection of information on microplastics and their existence within the environment. The main focus of this book is to address the ecological aspect of microplastics and their degradation of the ecosystem.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#microplastics
#soil
#microbiome

I’m currently writing a popular science book about the incredible world of soil - lucky me! I’m writing flat-out at the moment, which is why I’ve not been active on social media.

They say a change is as good as a rest, so I’ve taken a cheeky writing retreat to tackle the next chapter! Gosh I love Kaikōura so much, where else can you see mountains falling into the sea?!

#Soil #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Writing #PopScience #Popsci #Author #AuthorLife

#Water companies have been dumping toxic #sewage sludge on UK farmland

Turns out, the sludge can be packed with #microplastics and #chemicals, which contaminates the #soil that grows our food and pollutes our #rivers.

We need the government to clamp down on this AND guarantee that water companies won’t pass the cost of cleaning up their mess onto bill-payers!

Will you join me in signing this petition?
https://act.gp/3Fto506

#pollution #PFAS

I received this invitation. (comments at the end)

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Dear Colleagues,

The first part of the 5th EUSO Stakeholders Forum will be an online event on 12th June, focussing on the topic "Soil health and EU competitiveness". During this event, case studies from the private sector will show how healthy soils can promote competitiveness in terms of the three pillars:
a) closing the innovation gap
b) decarbonisation and competitiveness
c) reducing excessive dependencies

The event includes presentations from the biotechnology sector, agribusiness, banking-financial sector, remediation industry, start-ups, carbon farming, development of clean products and retail industry.

More information as Agenda, Speakers and Registration can be found in the page:

https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/euso/5th-euso-stakeholders-forum

Kind Regards,
Panos PANAGOS, PhD.

Scientific/Research Officer
Project Leader of EU Soil Observatory (EUSO)

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My thoughts:
Ok, we need urgently more awareness about soils. We need more #OrganicAgriculture, #RegenerativeAgriculture, #AgroecologicalTransition, #CommunitySupportedAgriculture and much more. What we *definitely* don't need, is a meeting with NOT A SINGLE FARMER, but people from Syngenta, Bayer, Nestlé and a bunch of other industry representatives to allow them to show that they are trying soo hard to protect our environment while they do everything they can to sabotage meaningful policy changes. Venture capital funded Start-ups and old villains are definitely not the structural change the agrifood-system needs.

Maybe it will still be an informative event, who knows.

Thank you for listening.

#Agronomy #Agroecology #SoilHealth #SoilScience #Remediation #EUComission #Agriculture #Farming #Bioremediation #CarbonCapture #CorporateEurope #GreenDeal #Soil #Eurosoil ThisIsWhyWeNeedRealDegrowth