Carbon Balance and Management Blog
Friday Feb 10, 2012
The dramatic loss of carbon from soils
UNEP Yearbook outlines the dramatic loss of carbon from soils among major emerging issues for global environment. "The flagship publication, to be launched on 13 February 2012 at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi, shows that soil erosion due to traditional agriculture is occurring 100 times faster than soil's natural formation process." [1]
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[1] http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2667&ArticleID=9021&l=en
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