This report investigates the intricate interplay between drivers of changes in soil health and pressures and impacts on soil in the 32 European Environment Agency (EEA) member countries, along with six cooperating countries from the West Balkans, Ukraine and UK, shedding light on the...

This report investigates the intricate interplay between drivers of changes in soil health and pressures and impacts on soil in the 32 European Environment Agency (EEA) member countries, along with six cooperating countries from the West Balkans, Ukraine and UK, shedding light on the...

The report presents the development of an operational Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model into the JRC IMPACT Toolbox to support soil erosion modelling activities in Africa. The report first explains the background of the RUSLE model, its parameters and the criteria used to select...

Soil contamination in the Western Balkans is a significant challenge, hampered by inadequate legal frameworks, lack of comprehensive field data, and insufficient site investigations. This report aims to support the JRC's efforts to fill information gaps on soil pollution across the Western...

Clay minerals are a key factor in mineral soils as they are controlling physic, chemical and biological soil properties. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis has been widely used to identify and quantify minerals in earth science The aim of this research is to describe the clay minerals in soils...

The first ever Soil Atlas of Asia uses striking maps, informative texts and stunning photographs to show the changing nature of soil across this vast continent. It explains the factors that control the origins of soil and their evolution over time, the functions and ecosystem services that they...

Die Wälder Madagaskars sind für ihre hohe biologische Vielfalt bekannt und beherbergen zahlreiche endemische Pflanzen- und Tierarten. Diese Ökosysteme sind jedoch stark durch menschliche Aktivitäten bedroht, die zu Abholzung und Walddegradierung führen. Wirksame Naturschutzmaßnahmen...

The ever-deepening planetary crisis stipulates the urgency of bringing the Rio Conventions - the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - closer together to...

Flue gas desulfurization steel slag (DS), a solid waste produced by coal power plants and steelworks, was proposed as a new amendment for the remediation of saline-sodic soil. A pot experiment including three dosages of DS (1%, 5%, 10% w/w) and whether it combined with fulvic acid (FA) was...

Life on Earth depends on healthy soils. Soils are a finite resource, crucial for food and nutrition security as well as for climate change mitigation and adaptation, preserving nature and biodiversity, regulating water and nutrient cycles and sustaining our cultural and landscape heritage. In...

The first ever Soil Atlas of Asia uses striking maps, informative texts and stunning photographs to show the changing nature of soil across this vast continent. It explains the factors that control the origins of soil and their evolution over time, the functions and ecosystem services that they...

This paper explores the dynamics between soil degradation, integrated farming options and the uptake of these options in Southeast Asia. It begins with an overview of the status of soils, the reasons for degradation and the role nutrient management approaches could play in mitigating soil...

This study sought to evaluate the food security status of climate variability and land degradation-susceptible farmers, and measures used to transform to resilient livelihood. A Mixed approach was used to sample respondents and discussants. In the study, 342 household heads were interviewed for...

The international conventions on environments, i.e., biodiversity (UNCBD), land degradation (UNCCD), and climate change (UNFCCC) stipulates country-level policies, programs, and actions in sustaining the environmental well-being. This study is intended to connect the three conventions that has...

Soil loss by water erosion represents a key threat to land degradation worldwide. This study employs an integrated quantitative modelling approach to estimate the long-term global sustainability impacts of soil erosion. The global biophysical model estimates a mean increase of soil erosion rates...

Natural and anthropogenic conditions determine the intensity and direction of pedogenesis, as well as the nature and degree of degradation of the soil cover of the Republic of Moldova. Depending on the combination of natural and anthropogenic factors, the forms of land degradation are expand....

Using panel data of 83 counties observed from 2000 to 2015, the marginal abatement cost (MAC) of soil erosion is accurately evaluated by directional distance function with convex expectile regression. Besides, we further explore how the external variables affect shadow prices and the choice of...

Rampant soil degradation associated with accelerated soil erosion on the continent of Africa is estimated to contribute to crop yield reductions of about 16%, let alone the current climate change challenges. This study sought to evaluate the soil erosion smartness of conservation agriculture...

Natural siderite (FeCO3 ), simulated synthetic siderite and nZVI/FeCO3 composite were used as green and easily available iron-based catalysts in peroxydisulfate activation for remediating 2-chlorophenol as the target contaminated and this technique can effectively degrade organic pollutants in...

This study collected 274 soil samples and 188 soil-crop paired samples in moderately Cd contaminated farmland dominated by vegetables in suburbs of Yangtze River Delta. In addition, this study conducted field trials of soil amendment and cultivar selection using Luhao as the target crop. The...

Heavy metal remediation agents have been widely used in contaminated soils, but the remediation effects on heavy metals in soil aggregates and the effects on the structure and function of the microbial communities in aggregates have rarely been reported. Here, sodium silicate, sepiolite,...

The role of the increasing rodent population in grassland degradation on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is the subject of continuing debate. Rodenticides are used to control the population, but this measure threatens ecosystem biodiversity. We conducted a five-year grazing experiment to...

Rice straw (RS) is treated by straw biogas anaerobic digestion (AD) technology to reduce pollution, but RS anaerobic gas production technology has some problems such as low gas production rate, slow digestion speed, and long digestion period. Domesticated paddy soil microbes (DPSM) is an...

This study investigated a gas fractionation enhanced soil washing method for poly-and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) removal from contaminated soil. With the assistance of gas fractionation, PFAS removal from the contaminated soil was increased by a factor of 9, compared to the conventional...

In what are now the warm deserts of the American Southwest, direct effects of changing climate on plant distributions are typically viewed as the principal driver of vegetation changes that followed the late Pleistocene-Holocene transition (LPH). However, at a semi-arid site in the eastern...

In the face of climate change, forage production is a challenge for human populations sustainability in semiarid areas, due to the decrease in water availability, and increase in soil degradation. Sewage effluents can represent an alternative supply of water and nutrients. However, their...

As a new type of environmental pollutant, environmental antibiotic residues have attracted widespread attention, and the degradation and removal of antibiotics has become an engaging topic for scholars. In this paper, Novozym 51003 industrialized laccase and syringaldehyde were combined to...

Nickel (Ni) contamination imposes deleterious effects on the stability of soil ecosystem. Soil fungal community as a crucial moderator of soil remediation and biochemical processes has attracted more and more interests. In the present study, soil fungal community composition and diversity under...

In this study, we performed both laboratory and field studies to analyze the behavior of the pesticides chlorantraniliprole (CAP) and difenoconazole (DIF) by the presence of tank adjuvant in soil. In the laboratory, DIF exhibited a significantly higher Freundlich maximum adsorption capacity than...

In order to reduce the burden to the environment, the application of prothioconazole and its metabolites need comprehensive evaluation. Therefore, the environmental behaviors tests of prothioconazole were conducted in different conditions, three typical soils and two types of water-sediment...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous persistent organic pollutants in soil, which have carcinogenic, teratogenic and mutagenic hazards. The effects of RL, nZVI and AQDS on the degradation of PAHs in soil were studied. It was found that the treatment of 5 mg · kg-1RL + 1% nZVI...

In this work, Rhodococcus ruber HJM-8 and Paracoccus communis YBH-X were isolated and used to enhance N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAC) degradation and mineralization efficiencies. The monoculture and co-culture of the two strains for DMAC degradation were compared; results indicated that, a...

Photocatalysis is considered an economical, environmentally friendly, and effective technology for removing pollutants. The construction of Z-Scheme heterojunctions has been identified as one of the feasible solutions capable of enhancing the photocatalytic activity. Herein, a series of visible...

The composite of α-Fe 2 O 3 @PTCDI based on supramolecular photocatalyst of perylene bisimide (PTCDI) decorated with α-Fe 2 O 3 was prepared via calcination of ferric nitrate with self-assembly PTCDI. The composite displayed a high and stable performance for the degradation of phenol...

Greenhouse farming is a major source of plastic contamination in agricultural soils because it is characterized by the high production of plastic films that pollute agricultural farmlands with macroplastics and microplastics. Particularly, microplastics can penetrate the agricultural soil and...

Mining, smelting and tailing deposition activities can cause metal(loid) contamination in surrounding soils, threatening ecosystems and human health. Microbial indicators have a crucial role in evaluating soil quality. Selecting the Xikuangshan antimony mine in China as the research area, the...

Solanum nigrum L. has been described as a Cd hyperaccumulator, but the potential for continuous remediation, long-term effects of different planting methods, or chemical chelating agents have not been fully characterized. The potential for continuous phytoremediation of Cd-contaminated farmland...

Lacking quality soil erosion field data has been a serious problem in soil erosion research because we haven’t had a proper field technology for common croplands. Recently, a novel soil erosion field technology has been developed and shown promising preliminary results of solving this problem....