Save Soil's map of different levels of land degradation around the globe in 2019. Save Soil It also helps improve water filtration and provides habitats for insects that may be beneficial to the soil.

Soil degradation is one of the major drivers of the climate and biodiversity crises. It is also economically damaging: soil degradation costs billions of estimated €50bn-plus per year due to the loss ...

Unhealthy soil is a major contributor to land degradation. This can lead to loss of biodiversity, harm plants and animals, cause sand and dust storms and affect crop yields.

Frequent forest fires and agricultural expansion are degrading soil health in the southern Brazilian Amazon. This results in lasting damage to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stocks, as well as to the ...

Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said on Friday.

Spain has the highest rates of soil degradation in Europe, with an average of 14.2 tonnes of soil lost per hectare to erosion each year 1.

A gardener from Amsterdam begins a 30,000-km (18,640-mile) bicycle trek from London to India on Wednesday as part of a campaign to raise awareness about soil degradation.