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Restoring soil can help address climate change

  • Written by David R. Montgomery, Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
No-till farming conserves soil by greatly reducing erosion.USDA NRCS South Dakota/Eric Barsness, CC BY-SA

It’s time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very high confidence in its latest report, land degradation represents “one of the biggest and most urgent challenges” that...

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