The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted the Basque Institute Read more…
The loss of organic matter is one of the various threats to the soils that have been identified by the European Commission. Soils act as vast carbon sinks and could therefore become emitters of green house gasses when the carbon holding organisms decay. Read more…
“It may be doubted whether there are many other animals … which have played so important a part in the history of the world”. Charles Darwin.
In some fascinating new research, scientists have found that the humble earthworm can provide a new sensitive and detailed Read more…
