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Rock becomes visible as topsoil is eroded away.Credit: Martin Harvey/Getty
A call for governments to save soil
January 28, 2022

To ensure food security, the world must stop letting fertile soil wash and blow away. Soil creates life from death. The production of more than 95% of the food we eat relies on soil...Yet this precious resource is eroding at a global average of 13.5 tonnes per hectare per year.

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Left to Right: Marsil Omengkar, Sorcha Basilius, Dallas Oketol, Maria Leerbey, Sheldon Elbelau, Brian Eungel
Melekeok Conservation network volunteers reforestation for PHA
April 3, 2021

The Melekeok Conservation Network (MCN) in partnership with the Palau Housing Authority planted Seba Grass to prevent erosion as a need to use resources for preservation and more efficiently to promote long-term sustainability of soil enrichment.

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Drought conditions. weathered soils. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain
Climate change and land use are accelerating soil erosion by water
August 27, 2020

Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly around the world over the next 50 years due to climate change and intensive land cultivation.

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