Rapid urban development🏙 and industrialisation🏭 lead to landscape fragmentation. How does this affect soil health?🌱 Learn about it in our latest blog post. 🔗tinyurl.com/36vxr3ne
#UrbanSoils #SoilHealth #Fragmentation #BENCHMARKS

Glossary Alert 🚨 BENCHMARKS is working with key stakeholders to develop and validate a framework that helps with the monitoring and assessment of soil health. What are MRV actors?

🔍Explore other terms on our website.
🔗soilhealthbenchmarks.eu/glossary/

#benchmarks #glossary #soilhealth

🌱 Happy International Day for Biological Diversity UN Biodiversity! Soil biodiversity is vital for a healthy planet. Do you know what are 4 key functions of #SoilBiodiversity ?
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#SoilHealth #BiodiversityDay #BENCHMARKS
#PartOfThePlan #ForNature

Conserving the #soil is one of the great challenges facing science & humanity!

In this article by Jorge Curiel Yuste 🇵🇸 talks about soil - the substrate that sustains us - and explains why is it so important to preserve it 🔎🌱

Check it out!
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holisoils.eu/conserving-the…

Glossary Alert 🚨To better understand the state of soil health in a particular area, scientists often assess its soil health index. But, what is it?
If you want to learn 📚 about more terms please check out our website 🔍.
🔗Link in our bio.

#benchmarks #glossary #soilhealth

Happy Fascination of Plants Day Fascination of Plants Day EPSO! 🌱 Plants are truly fascinating. What happens underneath them, where plants interact with soil to sustain life, is magical✨! Healthy soils mean healthy plants. #BENCHMARKS
#PlantDay #SoilHealth

These last weeks, we shared multiple videos showcasing Urban Soils, and we've compiled them all in our blog! 🌆🌱 Take your time to watch them and let us know in the comments what you think of this series.📺✨
#benchmarks #soilhealthbenchmarks #urbansoils  
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Did you know that the health of our soil can impact the organoleptic quality of our food?

Learn more about organoleptic characteristics of our food in this post!

#BENCHMARKS #SoilHealth BENCHMARKS #SoilHealth #Environment alPreservation #Sustainability #Environment

Happy Europe Day🌍! Our project has case studies all over the continent. Find out more about them in our website🌐:
soilhealthbenchmarks.eu/case-studies/
#soilhealtbenchmarks #BENCHMARKS #casestudies

📢 Time is running out! Abstract submissions for #GSID24 - the Global Symposium on Soil Information & Data closing on 10 May 24.
Don't miss your chance to share your research #SoilHealth #GlobalSoilPartnership

📝Submit forms.office.com/e/aMspPbvz8h
🌐 Website fao.org/global-soil-pa…

🌱 We have come to the end of the interviews with Prof. Fabio Terribile and Dr. Christophe Schwartz about #urbansoil and they wanted to make us think about the underrated value of urban soils! Did you like this series? 🏙️ #BENCHMARKS #SoilHealthBenchmarks
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❗Term of the day: Arable Land 🚜 This is a current term in the agricultural field🧑‍🌾  but, have you heard about it? If you want to learn 📚 about more terms please check out our website 🔍

soilhealthbenchmarks.eu/glossary/

#benchmarks #soilhealth benchmarks #glossary #soilhealth

🌱 Today, Professor Fabio Terribile from CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Unina Federico II explains to us what the soil tells us about the environment. Did you know any of the facts he mentioned? Tell us in the comments and stay tuned! 🌍🔍 #BENCHMARKS #urbansoils
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Do you know about the #texture of the #soils ?

The soil is divided into solid🌱, liquid💧 and gaseous💨 constituents. Solid constituents are particles of rocks and minerals of different sizes, forming the texture of the soil.

Learn more about it in this post!

Today, on our #Urbansoilseries 🌆 we have Professor Fabio Terribile from CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Unina Federico II talking about the problems that come up when we try separate rural from urban soil 🌱 Stay tuned next week for another episode🔎 #soilhealthbenchmarks #BENCHMARKS
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Most of the Earth's biodiversity is found in our soils.... but soil biodiversity is declining.

The good news is that the loss is reversible!

What we can do to protect #SoilBiodiversity & our planet this #EarthDay & everyday 👇

#GenerationRestoration

To support education of soil science & ensure high standards of professional practice, we run our own courses under the banner of 'Working with Soils'.

You can register your interest for our next course scheduled to take place in Shropshire in September.

soils.org.uk/education/soil…

Happy Mother Earth Day! Do you know how soils are formed?🌱 They originate from parent rocks undergoing weathering due to climatic factors like sunlight and rainfall, forming different horizons over time.🌍
#SoilHealthBENCHMARKS #BENCHMARKS #SoilFormation

🏙️ Dr. Christophe Schwartz, from the Université Lorraine  and INRAE , delves into more types of urban soils and their implications. Next week, he'll be joined by another guest to further explore it! 🌆🔍 #BENCHMARKS #urbansoils #SoilHealthBenchmarks
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❗Glossary Alert: Allotments🚜. Did you know about this word? Tell us in the comments and check for more words on our comprehensive glossary⭐. Remember that you can drop suggestions about it to make it better📈!
soilhealthbenchmarks.eu/glossary/
#benchmarks #soilhealthbenchmarks #glossary