Growing plant trade may spread invasive species – but help ecosystems adapt to climate change
Potting soils are helping plant seeds travel. Is it benign or harmful?
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Sinkholes: when the ground fights back after centuries of exploitation
For every 0.1°C rise in temperature, the number of sinkholes increases by 1 to 3%.
The secret life of roots: how plants fight back against salty soils
As soils become saltier, roots are deploying remarkable survival strategies that could help safeguard future food supplies.
Regeneratively farmed is the new buzz label on supermarket shelves – but what does it actually mean?
While regenerative agriculture might seem like a pioneering new approach, this term isn’t new. Here’s how it differs from organic.
Planting trees must be done with care – it can create more problems than it addresses
Although China’s tree-planting efforts have increased carbon sequestration for climate mitigation and protected the soil from erosion, they have also led to drastic water shortages.
Countries are relying on forests and soil to absorb their remaining carbon – it’s a risky way to reach net zero
National strategies depend on natural methods to offset emissions – but acknowledge this may not be possible.
Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics
Up to 42,000 tonnes a year of microplastics are removed from sewage, spread on fields as fertiliser and eventually wash back into watercourses.
Earthworms are more important than pandas (if you want to save the planet)
We focus on large, charismatic animals at the expense of these crucial ‘lowly creatures’.
Do trees really stay in touch via a ‘wood‑wide web’? Here’s what the evidence says
A new study looked at the many claims made about soil fungi and found some misconceptions.
How your festival wee could disrupt soil health and water quality
Festivalgoers could be adding nitrogen and phosphorous to the rural environment at concentrated hotspots by weeing in the open air.
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