To help monitor the health of Europe’s soils, the European Environment Agency (EEA) provides a set of common indicators and critical thresholds in a report published on Wednesday 18 January, as multiple pressures are increasingly exerted on a valuable resource for food production, water purification and carbon storage, the EEA says.
This report supports the EU Soil Strategy for 2030 adopted in 2021 to “reap the benefits of healthy soils for people, food, nature and climate” (see...