The Week in Soil
Our weekly blog features the main scientific, political and cultural soil-related stories of interest from across the web over the previous seven days, available on our website and through our Twitter account every Friday morning.
23 December 2022
- Livestock river pollution
- UK agricultural land use
- Earthworms decline
- Brussel sprouts
- Dark chocolate, soils and heavy metals
16 December 2022
- Land Use Framework
- Clarity on ELMS
- COP15
- Inquiry into soil health
- US soil erosion
09 December 2022
- World Soil Day
- Soil in COP15
- UK Farm Soil Carbon report
- Plant your pants campaign
- Cycling for soil
02 December 2022
- Nature key to food security
- Nitrogen pollution from farms
- US Farm Bill
- COP27 agreement
- Less grazing improving soils
25 November 2022
- Environment targets
- Fertiliser profits rise
- Soil carbon in Kenya
- UNEP Peatland Report
- Cycling for Soils
18 November 2022
- Future of ELMS
- COP27 on soil
- EU law on carbon removal
- Rewarding organic farming
- Sustainable rice
11 November 2022
- COP27 and soils
- WWF Basket Report
- Soil carbon market myths
- Crises drive regen transition
- Growing food in Mars soil
04 November 2022
- Fast-track nature farm reforms
- Soils, farming and the climate report
- ELMS protect water from soil
- Compostable packaging not composting
- Martian soil samples
28 October 2022
- New Defra ministers
- Soil carbon schemes
- UK crop yields and climate change
- Microplastics in Soil- UN reports
- New technologies for soil health
21 October 2022
- Drought persisting to 2023
- Tenant farmers Review
- Natural England chair on ELMS
- WWF on protecting nature
- Good Food Good Farming march
14 October 2022
- UK Soils Awareness Week
- Good Food Good Farming March
- European Environment Agency on nitrogen
- Pesticides in soils impact ancient buried metals
- Economics of agroecological transition
07 October 2022
- Conservative Party conference
- George Eustice argues for ELMs
- Welsh Agriculture Bill
- EU consulting on Soil Health Law
- UK Soils Awareness Week
30 September 2022
- Concerns for ELMS
- $1.9 trillion biodiversity loss-risk
- Soil health in US farm bill
- World Soil Day 2023
- Soil moisture and crop yields
23 September 2022
- Organic September
- GMOs in Argentina
- US sewage sludge
- Soil health and potatoes
- Rock dust and peat soils
16 September 2022
- Dry soils and winter food shortages
- Climate change and multi-breadbasket failures
- Task force on construction and soil
- Warm soils help crop pests
- Perennial wheats and soil health
09 September 2022
- New Defra secretary
- Regenerative farming resilience
- Dry soils impact railways
- Forever chemicals in groundwater
- Property and sustainable food
02 September 2022
- Ban peat for gardening by 2024
- Drought in South West
- Post-Brexit UK soil policy
- Young people and soil health
- Healthy soils needed for wine
26 August 2022
- Soil carbon benefits for poor farms
- Costs preventing farm climate actions
- Oilseed rape not solution to soil compaction
- Soil microbiomes and our health
- Alfalfa and Martian soil
19 August 2022
- Defra drought support
- Welsh Sustainable Farming Scheme Survey
- Farmers seek more reservoirs
- Soil contamination in war in Ukraine
- Research on microplastics in soil
12 August 2022
- Drought impacting soils
- China national soil survey
- Australian firms making soil carbon money
- Soil bacteria reducing fertiliser use
- Electrocuting soils to deal with forever chemicals
05 August 2022
- World Congress of Soil Science
- Defra farmer survey
- UN on microplastics in soil
- New approach to soil health
- Peatlands in Congo
29 July 2022
- UK drought to affect soils
- Action on peat paused
- Nature-Friendly Farming Network report
- Earth’s topsoil at risk
- Australia’s soils ‘poor’
22 July 2022
- 25 Year Environment Plan Progress
- CPRE report
- Heat affecting soils and crops
- Action needed on microplastics in soils
- New Fungi species
15 July 2022
- EA Working with Nature
- NFU report on soil health
- International soil carbon credits
- Soil quality key for heat stress
- Biodynamic wine and soils
08 July 2022
- Wales farming scheme proposal
- Peatland burnings
- Tesco and River Wye
- WWF Feeding the Future
- Soil pollution and heart disease
01 July 2022
- SFI opens
- Climate Change Commission reports
- Investigation of water regulations
- UK joins global food coalition
- Nature-based farming and fertiliser
24 June 2022
- Scottish farm payments move earlier
- EU halving pesticides
- Groundswell 2022
- World Rainforest Day and food security
- Wetter farm seeking to help peat
17 June 2022
- Government Food Strategy
- Feeding Britain Report
- Nestle Wheat Plan
- Biochar buried in farm soils
- Weeds good for soil
10 June 2022
- Defra slurry storage grants
- NFU and Nitrate Vulnerable Zones
- Illegal peat burning
- Soils in food and farming revolution
- Soil art in Scotland
27 May 2022
- Defra action for pollinators
- UN global action on soil
- Monbiot’s new book, Regenesis
- Agrochemical microplastics in soil
- Chelsea Flower Show
20 May 2022
- Major decline in UK insects
- Imported soils damage UK soil
- Sadhguru calls for Global treaty for soil
- Yeo Valley seeks increase in soil carbon
- Plants grown in moon soil
13 May 2022
- UK environmental tipping point
- Basic payments forwarded to farmers
- Food education at farms
- Ben and Jerry’s regenerative farming
- Soil pollution in churchyards
06 May 2022
- Scotland's Sustainable Farming
- Nutrient pollution law and housebuilding
- Ireland funds EU soil research
- Role of soil carbon in climate mitigation
- Best British Beans
29 April 2022
- Violations of the Farming Rules for Water
- NFU and Green Alliance on ELMS
- Levelling up Englands rural economy
- 40% of worlds land degraded
- Rock dust can help soils
22 April 2022
- Climate change education
- Politics of protein and soils
- Communities connecting with family farms
- Forest edges growth
- Soil pores
15 April 2022
- SFI not paying enough
- EU supports carbon farming
- Food system not climate change ready
- US Midwest losses 57.6trn tons of topsoil
- The farmers behind Easter eggs
08 April 2022
- IPCC on soil carbon
- NFU warn food crisis
- SFT on green hydrogen fertiliser
- Soils under concrete
- Soil and veganism
01 April 2022
- Defra fertiliser support
- SFI update
- Peat in the horticulture industry
- Riverford launch planet fund
- Soil minerals and Covid-19
25 March 2022
- Northern Ireland soil health scheme opens
- UK Agriculture Partnership on soil
- IfG reports on post-Brexit agriculture
- EU halts Nature Protection package
- Soil governance reviewed
18 March 2022
- Fertiliser prices impact on soil health
- Defra Environmental Targets
- Red Tractor Standards and pesticides
- Soil crusts prevent erosion
- Guinness focus on soil health
11 March 2022
- DAERA soil health advice
- Soil food web
- Eat insects help soils
- Save Soils Campaign
- Soils in Spring planting
04 March 2022
- IPCC Report
- Call to ban peat sales
- Soil health impacts on nutrition
- The sound of soil
- Veganism and soil
25 February 2022
- Research on peat ban
- Construction soil specialists needed
- Birch trees help soil plastic
- Weeds show soil health
- Fashion for healthy soil
18 February 2022
- Defra learning as it goes with ELMs
- $675bn subsidies harm soils
- Peat soils in £10m landscape recovery research project
- soils resilience strategy
- Grasslands help soils and plants connect
11 February 2022
- Defra raises peat grassland water levels
- WWF farm soils net-zero role
- Garden centre peat-free training
- Fringe farms need soil
- Grassland wildfire carbon sinks
04 February 2022
- Rothamsted show climate risks soil
- Defra opens landscape recovery scheme
- Welsh govt farm carbon offset fears
- Regenerative forestry helps soil
- Soils lose, profit wins with big tractors
28 January 2022
- Lords’ report on nature-based solutions
- Defra drive woodland creation
- Global Forum focused on soil
- Soil under hedgerows capture CO2
- Drying peat risk buried treasure
21 January 2022
- Govt Climate Change Risk Assessment
- Commons Committee report on water quality
- Research funding for soils
- Chemical pollution beyond safe limit
- Earthworms damaged by microplastics
14 January 2022
- House of Commons Committee on Defra’s ELM
- Scottish funds for biodiversity
- Carbon farming in the EU
- Microplastics in tropical soils
- Urban worms mission
07 January 2022
- Oxford Farming Conference
- Oxford Real Farming Conference
- Northern Ireland and Defra consultations
- FAO state of land and water
- EU call for proposals