Soils are essential for supporting food production and providing ecosystem services but are
under pressure due to population growth, higher food demand, and land use competition …

Soil health is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that
sustains plants, animals and humans, and connects agricultural and soil science to policy …

Sustainable soil carbon sequestration practices need to be rapidly scaled up and
implemented to contribute to climate change mitigation. We highlight that the major potential …

Land degradation is a global issue receiving much attention currently. In order to objectively
reveal the research situation of land degradation, bibliometrix and biblioshiny software …

Soils under natural, tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services that have been
shaped by long-term soil–vegetation feedbacks. However, deforestation of tropical forest …

Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

Human appropriation of land for agriculture has greatly altered the terrestrial carbon
balance, creating a large but uncertain carbon debt in soils. Estimating the size and spatial …

Executive summary Far-reaching changes to the structure and function of the Earth's natural
systems represent a growing threat to human health. And yet, global health has mainly …

Soil security, an overarching concept of soil motivated by sustainable development, is
concerned with the maintenance and improvement of the global soil resource to produce …

BACKGROUND Earth's soil has formed by processes that have maintained a persistent and
expansive global soil mantle, one that in turn provided the stage for the evolution of the vast …