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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Sep 8

Summer crops severely affected in the south and east of Europe
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Summer crops severely affected in the south and east

Hot and dry conditions across southern and eastern Europe severely affected summer crops such as maize, sunflowers and soybean. Persistent drought in Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, southern Ukraine and Tü...

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Apr 23

ew 🆕JRC Bulletin📰 out! Dry condition ☀️in Central & Northern Europe🇪🇺, abundant rainfall 🌦️ in the South. Get the latest insights on European Agricultrure👨‍🌾🚜 and Crop yield 🌱🍃🌾forecast🧪🌡️. publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Apr 23

ew 🆕JRC Bulletin📰 out! Dry condition ☀️in Central & Northern Europe🇪🇺, abundant rainfall 🌦️ in the South. Get the latest insights on European Agricultrure👨‍🌾🚜 and Crop yield 🌱🍃🌾forecast🧪🌡️. publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Apr 11

⛔️Did you know that cadmium (Cd) levels in European 🇪🇺soils have increased by 50% in the 20th century due to fertiliser application, industrial emissions 🏭, and local contamination? A study maps Cd in EU topsoils to identify hotspots and risk areas. t.co/1rvL7ctlQX

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Mar 25

EU 🇪🇺 crops 🌾off to a promising start 🧭. Precipitation deficit ⛈️increases concerns⁉️ in Cetral & Eastern 🇪🇺. Heavy rainfall 🌧️benefited crops but raised concerns in the Iberian Peninsula 🇵🇹🇪🇸. Maghreb 🇩🇿🇲🇦🇹🇳 faces mixed crop prospects 👨‍🌾 joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Mar 25

EU 🇪🇺 crops 🌾off to a promising start 🧭. Precipitation deficit ⛈️increases concerns⁉️ in Cetral & Eastern 🇪🇺. Heavy rainfall 🌧️benefited crops but raised concerns in the Iberian Peninsula 🇵🇹🇪🇸. Maghreb 🇩🇿🇲🇦🇹🇳 faces mixed crop prospects 👨‍🌾 joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Mar 20

✅The EU Soil Observatory published the annual report 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣. Support to Soil Monitoring Law, Soil Mission, CRCF. 20% 📈of ESDAC users. 47 Publications📰 🧪. 10 Reports. State of Soils 2024. 15 new datasets💽. EUSO Forum 800 participants👩‍👩‍👧‍👦. Major milestones t.co/Sjpxt9vkEA

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PClimatologia @pclimatologia.bsky.social · Mar 3

41000-72700 millones de euroses el coste estimado de la degradación del suelo.

A Soil Monitoring Law for Europe - Panagos - Global Challenges - Wiley Online Library

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A Soil Monitoring Law for Europe

Over 60% of European soils are unhealthy, costing the European Union €40.9–72.7 billion annually. This figure can rise to €140 billion if all degradation processes are included. Soil degradation wors...

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Salla Saastamoinen @sallaloi.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Feb 24

EU winter crops🌾🌱 mostly in fair condition. Heavy rainfall 🌧️hampered crops in north-western France🇫🇷. #agriculture #science. Precipitation deficit raises concerns in central and eastern Europe. Drought has again thwarted yield expectations in the western and central Maghreb 🧪 t.co/HX6FT5DxG6

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Feb 24

EU winter crops🌾🌱 mostly in fair condition. Heavy rainfall 🌧️hampered crops in north-western France🇫🇷. #agriculture #science. Precipitation deficit raises concerns in central and eastern Europe. Drought has again thwarted yield expectations in the western and central Maghreb 🧪 t.co/HX6FT5DxG6

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Feb 12

🆕 study on Soil organic carbon indicator. SOC/clay does not represent soil structure grades or 🇪🇺 variability in land use🌲👨‍🌾 and climate🌧️☀️🌥️🌦️. Higher latitude areas are classified as very good due to low ⬇️clay. Mediterranean areas penalised.#soil www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Benchmarking soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration provides more robust soil health assessment than the SOC/clay ratio at European scale

Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) confers benefits to soil health, biodiversity, underpins carbon sequestration and ameliorates land degradation. O…

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Jan 19

How do diet shifts 🍊🥑🥓🍖affect the greenhouse gas balance of agricultural soils? Denmark case study. Decrease of 1.4 Mt CO2e y−1 decrease reducing livestock🐃🐖but increase of 0.5Mt Land cover change. N2O emission increase 50,000t 📈
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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Jan 10

Just published in @agu.org: The Impacts of Erosion on the Carbon Cycle. A 📰review at global scale🌍. More than ⚡️ 1 Billion tons of carbon are lost due to erosion every year. Contributing to debate if erosion is source or sink.

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Jan 14

A 1 billion Euro Mission 💰: A Soil Deal for Europe. Just published 📢 our roadmap 🛣️towards assessing soil health in the EU 🌍by 2030. Soil Mission is a promising step representing an important investment in Soils. 100 Living Lab and reducing soil degradation t.co/us8xjx6ZxY

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Dec 26

Dry conditions allow sowing campaign to catch up. According to JRC MARS Bulletin - crop monitoring in 🇪🇺, winter crops are in fair to good condition . They remain underdeveloped in parts of Romania🇷🇴 and Bulgaria🇧🇬, and in eastern Ukraine 🇺🇦and large parts of European Russia. t.co/a4T0EV8G35

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Jan 7

New paper relevant to @thegsbi.bsky.social
Global richness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
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The study highlight that a large % of fungi remains unknown! limiting our capacity to conserve these key organisms!

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David González @davidsustraiak.bsky.social · Nov 19

Así, las prácticas de laboreo empleadas habitualmente, pueden llegar a provocar una reducción de materia orgánica en el suelo de un 60% en 60 años (Kinsella, 1995), pudiendo ocasionar la pérdida de unas 2,5 Tm/Ha/año, 970 Mt de pérdida de tierra en UE (Panagos et al., 2015).

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Dec 26

Dry conditions allow sowing campaign to catch up. According to JRC MARS Bulletin - crop monitoring in 🇪🇺, winter crops are in fair to good condition . They remain underdeveloped in parts of Romania🇷🇴 and Bulgaria🇧🇬, and in eastern Ukraine 🇺🇦and large parts of European Russia. t.co/a4T0EV8G35

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Dec 15

Dry conditions ☀️ allow sowing👨‍🌾 campaign to catch up. According to the November edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin - crop monitoring in Europe🇪🇺, favourable temperatures 🌡️ and soil moisture conditions helped farmers to accelerate sowing. More info: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe in November 2024

average to above-average temperatures and drier-than-usual conditions helped farmers to accelerate sowing, and were favourable for the initial development of recently sown crops.

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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Dec 17

🌾 Winter cereals: in good shape in most of Europe . Underdeveloped in Romania🇷🇴, Bulgaria🇧🇬, Ukraine, and Russia raise concerns. 📉 Dry soil in Sicily 🇮🇹& Maghreb 🇲🇦🇹🇳. 🌡️ Mild temps delay cold tolerance buildup in parts of Europe🇪🇺.
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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Dec 17

🌾 Winter cereals: in good shape in most of Europe . Underdeveloped in Romania🇷🇴, Bulgaria🇧🇬, Ukraine, and Russia raise concerns. 📉 Dry soil in Sicily 🇮🇹& Maghreb 🇲🇦🇹🇳. 🌡️ Mild temps delay cold tolerance buildup in parts of Europe🇪🇺.
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Irene Biavetti @irenebiavetti.bsky.social · Dec 15

Dry conditions ☀️ allow sowing👨‍🌾 campaign to catch up. According to the November edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin - crop monitoring in Europe🇪🇺, favourable temperatures 🌡️ and soil moisture conditions helped farmers to accelerate sowing. More info: joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe in November 2024

average to above-average temperatures and drier-than-usual conditions helped farmers to accelerate sowing, and were favourable for the initial development of recently sown crops.

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Panos Panagos @panospanagos.bsky.social · Dec 8

🌍 The State of Soils in Europe Report is available for download! 🌱
1️⃣ 1 billion tons of soil lost to erosion each year
2️⃣ 400 km² of land is lost annually to soil sealing in the EU
3️⃣ Soils host almost 60% of terrestrial biodiversity
4️⃣ It takes 100 years to form 1cm of soil
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#EUSoil

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Alberto Orgiazzi @lultimoalbero.bsky.social · Dec 12

Soils host up to 60% of living species🤩

Do you know that @ec.europa.eu Joint Research Centre’s soil team has generated the 1st-ever assessment of soil life in Europe? 🍄‍🪱🇪🇺

Microbes 🦠🍄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Animals🐛🐜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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