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Business Green
MARCH 23, 2020
Fraction of budget spent on soils in England despite importance for combatting floods and boosting food security, Sustainable Soils Alliance warns. The Sustainable Soils Alliance (SSA) said it found just 0.41 The news comes amid growing concern about the health of soils both in the UK and worldwide.
Grist
MARCH 27, 2024
Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland. A 2014 study showed that climate change could increase the endophyte’s toxicity. Friendly fescue soil, by contrast, has more microbes than toxic fescue soil.
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Business Green
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
From ditching GDP as a measure of economic wealth to enhancing environmental education: BusinessGreen has rounded up all the recommendations of the Dasgupta Review of the Economics of Biodiversity. This imbalance must be addressed, according to the report, or else disaster awaits. Don't have time to read the 606 page report?
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 21, 2022
With a planned and targeted strategy we achieved that and beyond, and state of Punjab was poster boy of this widely hailed success story but it came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health. It came, and came at the harrowing cost of human lives and health, scarring families for generations.
Grist
MAY 14, 2024
Although Xiong’s previous research using space-exposed seeds has identified mutant varieties of wheat that are more tolerant to saline soil , which can prove useful as saltwater encroaches on agricultural fields thanks to rising sea levels, she hopes to identify others that are resistant to dry conditions or use nitrogen more efficiently.
Business Green
APRIL 1, 2020
Royal Society study author argues people 'should be as appalled' by badly managed soils as deforestation. Bringing together the latest evidence on the "diverse and underappreciated" functions soils perform, the science body's research points to many "win-win" benefits that arise from protecting and improving soils.
Grist
JANUARY 28, 2020
Increasingly, Blanchard and other Gulf Coast fishermen find themselves reckoning with a different type of pollution, a threat to ocean biodiversity and Louisiana’s $2 billion seafood industry that’s unrelated to oil and much harder to fix. The process appeals to farmers who want an assessment of the health of their whole farm.
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