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World’s soils have lost 133 billion tonnes of carbon since the dawn of agriculture, study estimates

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Independent (UK)

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2017-08-30

The degradation of the Earth’s soil by humans has been an environmental catastrophe on a similar scale to the deforestation of much of the planet, a new study suggests.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/soil-lost-carbon-133-billion-tonnes-farming-agriculture-deforestation-a7918941.html