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.

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
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