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Soil area the size of Berlin lost each year due to water erosion in the EU

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Phys.org

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2015-09-02

A recent assessment carried out by the JRC estimates that water erodes 970 million tonnes of soil every year in the EU. This would mean a one metre-depth loss of soil from an area corresponding to the size of the city of Berlin, or a one centimetre loss from an area twice the size of Belgium.

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http://phys.org/news/2015-09-soil-area-size-berlin-lost.html