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• United Nations news center

Caring for the planet starts with 'the ground we walk on' UN says on World Soil Day

Soil is a major carbon storage system, essential for sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation, the United Nations agriculture agency said Tuesday, launching on World Soil Day a comprehensive global map showing the amount of carbon stocks contained in soil...

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• Washington Post

The mud that could save the world

Peatlands are some of the most essential ecosystems in the fight against climate change. Though they occupy only 3 percent of the world’s land area, they store about as much carbon as found in all land plants and animals combined.

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The zoo beneath our feet: We’re only beginning to understand soil’s hidden world

The gardener has a long, touchy-feely relationship with the soil. As every good cultivator knows, you assess the earth by holding it. Is it dark and crumbly, is there an earthworm or beetle in there, is it moist, and when you smell it, are you getting that pleasant earthy aroma?

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• New York Times 

Soil Power! The Dirty Way to a Green Planet

The last great hope of avoiding catastrophic climate change may lie in a substance so commonplace that we typically ignore it or else walk all over it: the soil beneath our feet. The earth possesses five major pools of carbon.

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• The Guardian

Carbon emissions from warming soils could trigger disastrous feedback loop 

Warming soils are releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than previously thought, suggesting a potentially disastrous feedback mechanism whereby increases in global temperatures will trigger massive new carbon releases in a cycle that may be impossible to break.

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• Nature

Safeguarding our soils

Alarming rates of soil degradation highlight the fragility of this precious resource and call into question our ability to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. World Soil Day, December 5th, celebrates the importance of soils and calls for increased awareness and action to safeguard soil health and protect the prospects of a sustainable future.

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• Huffington Post

Recognizing Our Roots in the Earth

What’s your connection to the earth? I ask because many who pride themselves on eating sustainably, living lightly on the planet and being mindful in their lifestyle choices are taking important steps to reduce their impact on the planet. You may be among them.

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• IISD

Soil and Land Initiatives Seek to Spur Action Across SDGs

Recent research and initiatives undertaken by UN agencies, governments and NGOs highlight the links between soil health and the achievement of development goals and priorities related to climate change, agriculture, gender, biodiversity and poverty. 

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FAO Launches Soil Organic Carbon Map on World Soil Day

5 December 2017: The annual observance of World Soil Day, on 5 December, took place under the theme, ‘Caring for the Planet starts from the Ground.’ To mark the Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) released a ‘Global Soil Organic Carbon Map’, noting the importance of soils to addressing climate change and preserving critical ecosystem functions.

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• Reliefweb (Canada)

World Soil Day 2017: Healthy soils key to ending global hunger

Healthy soil plays a key role in ending global hunger. Yet it’s something that’s rarely discussed outside of the agricultural world.

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• North Dakota

Put your soil first

Focusing on soil health balances their system

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• New England

How Wolfe’s Neck Farm is combating climate change

It's all in the dirt

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• NPR

The Ground Beneath Our Feet

During a major soil catastrophe — the Dust Bowl — President Franklin Roosevelt told state governors, “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” Still, we treat our soil like dirt. By growing food and storing carbon dioxide and water, the loam and peat that coats the earth sustains us all. In return, we till it, treat it with chemicals and generally walk all over it.

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• The Ithaca Voice

Art and science combine to shine light on an overlooked resource underfoot

Forests, agriculture and hosts of plant and animal life depend on a resource that is easy to overlook: soil. But, using a combination of art and science, a graduate student at Cornell is getting people to look more closely at this vital resource by painting with it.

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• Union of Concerned Scientists

It’s World Soil Day: Celebrate Soil, Carbon, and the Opportunities Right Under Our Feet

These days, stories about soil health and regenerative farming seem to be catching on, so much so that it’s almost hard to keep up, at least for the avid soil geek.  

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• Science Daily

Soil researchers quantify an underappreciated factor in carbon release to the atmosphere

Soil plays a critical role in global carbon cycling, in part because soil organic matter stores three times more carbon than the atmosphere. Now biogeochemist Marco Keiluweit at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and colleagues elsewhere for the first time provide evidence that anaerobic microsites play a much larger role in stabilizing carbon in soils than previously thought.

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• The Foodtank

Soil: Mitigating Climate Change While Creating a More Resilient Food System

A new report indicates that better farmland soil management may be able to sequester the same amount of carbon as emitted globally by the transportation sector. The study, a collaborative effort by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), The Nature Conservancy, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), examined global soil samples and developed sequestration potential maps that can assist in developing mitigation strategies for reaching the targets set out in the Paris Climate Agreement.

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• The Rural

Carbon levels in soil have come under the spotlight in new research 

World Soil Day celebrates the importance of soil as a critical component of the natural system and as a vital contributor to the human commonwealth through its contribution to food, water and energy security and as a mitigator of biodiversity loss and climate change. It is celebrated particularly by the global community of 60,000 soil scientists charged with the responsibility of generating and communicating soil knowledge for the common good.

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Europe

• UN Food and Agriculture Organization

Cherishing the ground we walk on - Why we should appreciate our soils

Soil is where it all begins. Few people know that soils are a non-renewable resource. It takes over 1000 years to make 1 cm of soil. This means that in our lifetime, all the soil we see is all there is. Soils do amazing things for us that we sometimes take for granted. They sustain food production, filter our water, are the source for our medicines and help us to combat and adapt to climate change...

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• Global Soil Partnership

World Soil Day 2017 was a huge success!

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• UNCCD

Caring for the Planet starts from the Ground

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• El País

¿Qué países almacenan más carbono en sus suelos?

Las tierras de Rusia, Canadá, EE UU y otros siete países son las que más emisiones secuestran, según un mapa global presentado este martes

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• El Confidencial (EFE)

Solo 5 países concentran más de la mitad del carbono almacenado en los suelos

Rusia, Canadá, Estados Unidos, China y Brasil son los cinco países que tienen más carbono almacenado en los suelos y juntos concentran más de la mitad de esa materia en todo el mundo, según un nuevo mapa presentado hoy en Roma.

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• Le Matin

Lutte contre le changement climatique: La FAO a lancé la carte la plus complète au monde des stocks de carbone dans le sol

«La carte mondiale du carbone organique du sol, illustrant la quantité de carbone organique dans les 30 premiers centimètres du sol, révèle les zones naturelles à haut stockage de carbone qui nécessitent sa conservation, ainsi que les régions où la séquestration est possible», indique, sur son portail électronique, l'Organisation des Nations unies pour l'agriculture et l'alimentation (FAO).

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• Deutsche Welle

Could soils help save the climate?

Soils are a double-edged climate sword. They are huge reservoirs of organic carbon and can act as a carbon sink. But they can also release CO2 into the atmosphere when used unsustainably.

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• Corriere della Sera

Una giornata per cambiare: tanto cemento e ferite insanabili

Sulla scia della giornata mondiale del suolo, è desolante constatare come una legge di contenimento del suo consumo sia ferma in Senato da un anno e mezzo dopo la sua approvazione alla Camera nel maggio del 2016, mentre la depredazione del terreno prosegue al ritmo di 3 mq al secondo. Il risultato è di avere un territorio nazionale cementificato per oltre 23 mila kmq (pari a Molise, Liguria e Campania messi insieme).

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• L'Internazionale 

Il Paradiso non può attendere

L'Italia e il suolo che nessuno tutela

La legge sul consumo del suolo, dopo 1.824 giorni di discussione, è affidata al miracolo di gennaio.

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Italia divorata dal cemento: in 50 anni urbanizzata un'area come la Valle d'Aosta

Domani è la giornata contro il consumo del suolo e il Wwf, tecnicamente supportato dall’Università dell’Aquila, ci dice che in mezzo secolo – 1951-2001 - l’urbanizzazione in Italia è cresciuta del 300 per cento e che solo negli ultimi dieci anni sono stati costruiti altri 180mila edifici.

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• Micky Mouse: Topolino

Il mondo sotto i nostri piedi

Alleato contro il cambiamento climatico, garante di cibo per tutti, supermercato di risorse per la vita quotidiana: Il suolo che calpestiamo è preziosissimo! In occasione della sua "Festa", dichiarata dalle Nazioni Unite per il 5 Dicembre, impariamo a conoscerlo meglio!

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• ANSA

Giornata del suolo, Italia consuma 3 metri quadri al secondo

Il 5 dicembre 2017 è la Giornata Mondiale del Suolo, lanciata ogni anno dal Global Soil Partnership, un'alleanza internazionale fra stati, istituzioni e ong promossa dalla Fao, l'agenzia agroalimentare dell'Onu.

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• Sole 24 ore

Suolo, ad Assisi per ragionare dalla Terra alla Terra

Ad Assisi, grazie a Francesco vera patria dell'economia circolare, appuntamento nella giornata mondiale del suolo con "Dalla terra alla Terra. Il suolo tra cambiamenti climatici e nuovi stili di vita".

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• The Foodtank

Asia

• The Times of India 

NLC India Limited celebrated World Soil Day

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• The Hindu

Today is World Soil Day

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World Soil Day celebrated

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• The new Indian Express

Soil it...Layer by layer

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Classes from December 5: government to train farmers in modern methods

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• The Echo of India

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• The Daily Times

40,000 hectares of fertile land becoming saline annually in Pakistan

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• Thai PBS 

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• LAO Press

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• Xinhua

UN launches Global Soil Organic Carbon Map on World Soil Day

The United Nations on Tuesday launched the Global Soil Organic Carbon Map on World Soil Day, calling for "caring the ground we walk on."

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• Uzbekistan’s 1News Agency 

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Latin American and the Caribeean (GRULAC)

• El Diario

El suelo como garante de presente y futuro

El Día Mundial del Suelo sirve para centrar la atención en la importancia de un suelo sano para la sostenibilidad del planeta

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• Jornal Do Brazil

FAO alerta para aumento da degradação dos solos a nível mundial

A Organização das Nações Unidas para Alimentação e Agricultura (FAO) fez um alerta nesta terça-feira (5) para o aumento da degradação dos solos a nível mundial, devido a práticas inadequadas de manuseio da terra. O alerta foi lançado por ocasião do Dia Mundial do Solo, que se comemora hoje, sob lema “Cuidar do planeta começa com o solo”.

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• Prensa Latina

En Cuba II taller sobre técnicas analíticas de suelos 

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• Aacrea Argentina 

Así son los suelos de mi país  

Una experiencia única para crear conciencia 

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• CGIAR's CIAT institute

CIAT celebrated World Soil Day with a useful look at some apparent paradoxes in soil carbon sequestration efforts in West Africa.

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Near East

• The Sudanese news agency SUNA spread it through Arab media

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• Gulf news: Environment

Soil conservation becomes heart of the matter in land of sand

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South-West Pacific

• Agriculture and Food

A world of soil information on show at Perth forum

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• Minister of Agriculture

Healthy Soils, means healthy farms, means healthy Australians 

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Africa

• Daily Trust (Nigeria)

Experts call for proper soil management

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• Modern Ghana

December 5 is World Soil Day

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• World Food Bank (East Africa)

World Soil Day 2017: healthy soils are key to food production in East Africa

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• Farmers' weekly (South Africa)

World Soil Day: Overcoming farmers'resistance to climate-smart agriculture

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• IFPRI Blog

#WorldSoilDay: Soil conservation is everyone’s responsibility

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