A deeper look at soil health on world soil day 2020

This Saturday, December 5th, is World Soil Day — a day to celebrate soil, the species that live there (more than a quarter of all species, in fact), and the underground dance of organisms and elements that sustains life on our planet.

The campaign for 2020 — keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity — is about encouraging governments, organizations, communities and individuals to commit to proactively improving soil health.

But how healthy is our soil? To answer the call to action, we need to know just what is going on down there, across truly vast areas…