New policy brief: Soil health and nature restoration
Healthy soils underpin productive ecosystems, support biodiversity and strengthen resilience to climate...
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Scientists invite collaboration on new soil health platform with AI chatbot to support sustainable farming and land management across Europe
A pan-European team of scientists and soil innovation partners are inviting soil advisers, land...
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Mapping soil degradation in Europe
With soil health rising up the EU policy agenda, new science is...
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Europe adopts its first soil health law
On 23 October 2025, the European Parliament (EP) gave its final approval...
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A framework for monitoring and assessing soil health at national level
Sebastian Gutierrez and Lucas Gomes from the Department of Agroecology write about...
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New map of soil health set to revolutionise how we manage soil in Europe and allow us to peer into the future
A new EU Soil Health Data Cube layered map will revolutionise how...
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“Innovation is key to improving how we understand, manage and protect soil”
Recently, a team of experts and volunteers from the Soil Association visited...
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How eDNA reveals hidden life in soil
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is revolutionising how we study biodiversity, providing a non-invasive way to detect organisms from the genetic material they leave behind. In soil, eDNA can originate from bacteria, archaea, fungi, protists, plants, and even animals, offering a snapshot of ecosystem diversity and health. But how do we extract and analyse eDNA from something as complex as soil?
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A New Approach to Measuring Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)
Measuring soil health across a large continent provides us with a challenge....
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Building common approaches to soil investigation across Europe
One part of the AI 4 Soil Health project is looking to develop common methodologies for in-situ sampling, so that data coming from the different sensors and other tools can be used together.
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