Alberto Orgiazzi

Soil is a key booster of 🇪🇺 economy🤎

@ec.europa.eu’s soil team organises 5th EUSO Stakeholders Forum “How can healthy soils increase EU competitiveness?”

Great line up of speakers➡️ esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/public_path/...

12th June, online, FREE🤩

Register➡️ ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...

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.@ec.europa.eu’s EU #Soil Observatory (EUSO) newsletter no. 175 out 🤎 🇪🇺

- EUSO Annual Report 2024 📑
- 5th EUSO Stakeholder Forum – Sept 9th, 2025 – Call for abstracts 📣 💡
- Free-to-download State of Soil posters 🧦 🍄

And more 🤩

Read online version & subscribe ➡️ ec.europa.eu/newsroom/jrc...

Soil monitoring law: Council reaches deal with Parliament The Council reached a provisional deal with the European Parliament on a directive to improve monitoring and assessment of all soils within the EU.

𝗔 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 🇪🇺 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹𝘀!

@ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu just reached an agreement on the Soil Monitoring Law 🤎

Read more ⬇️
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

✅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

Soil organic carbon is at risk in a large part of European agricultural 🧑‍🌾🌱🌿 land. The topsoil organic carbon pool is at high risk in 43 to 83 million hectares of EU and UK🧪🔬. A new study published by @naturecomms.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

still waiting for a good news…

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Remote sensing and sensors to measure soil biodiversity. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Soil biodiversity drives many of the ecosystem processes that support life on earth, yet evaluating soil biodiversity has proven to be both challenging and time consuming. Often, expert knowledge and ...

Very interesting FREE webinar organised by @thegsbi.bsky.social 🤎

𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗶𝗹 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆🛰️ 🪱

When: 21 February 2025 - 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET

Free registration ➡️ zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📢New tool developed by @ec.europa.eu’s soil team as part of 🇪🇺 Soil Observatory🤎

EU SOIL STRATEGY ACTION TRACKER 📊

The tool tracks progresses made by European Commission in relation to policy actions proposed by EU Soil Strategy for 2030.

Check it out➡️ esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esdacviewer/...

Great to see soil life winning a @nhm-london.bsky.social category of 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year📸

www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/gallery/...

Even greater reading the category name: "Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year" - Well done Alexis!

New generations, soil biodiversity is in your hands🤎

It’s just me or now X has just become a “10 … pictures that you have never seen… A thread 1.”? 🤔

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

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.

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...

🤎 @ec.europa.eu’s European Soil Data Centre is the greatest soil data repository for Europe🇪🇺

Over 120 datasets are freely accessible: physico-chemical & biological point data + maps🗺️

Check it out➡️https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/resource-type/datasets

Published in @naturecomms.bsky.social : Land Degradation affects8️⃣0️⃣% of EU agricultural soils. The first EU 🌍 study on land degradation including Soil degradation + GroundWater decline🫧, Aridity🏜️, Vegetation degradation🌾. #EUSoil Data free for download in #EUSO doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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....

@thegsbi.bsky.social

Atlas Introduction — Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative

Happy #WorldSoilDay 🤎

Today is a great day to check out the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas:

www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/atlas-introd...

A lovely Dicyrtomina ornata springtail from Somerset in the UK showing off its crazy colours. These guys are around 1mm big and just an utter delight in every way. I love them more than anything. Springtails really are the best…! #springtail #collembola #macro #soil #soilanimal

Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events - Nature Soils from 30 grasslands across Europe were subjected to 4 contrasting extreme climatic events under drought, flood, freezing and heat conditions, with the results suggesting that soil microbiomes fro...

Science takes time - a lot of time. Time that is more and more difficult to make available because of increased workloads. Time that exceeds the temporary contracts of postdocs and PhDs.

I'll illustrate this using our paper published in Nature yesterday. 🧵 (1/x)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

YouTube video by Disney Jr. Bluey Season 3 Episode 36 "Dirt" Episode Clip | @disneyjr | @BlueyOfficialChannel​

Just found out the best example to showcase beauty and importance of soils🤎

This Bluey episode is masterful😍

Let kids play with soils🙃

youtu.be/y_f3Rbyco0c?...

Glad to not be listed among highly cited researchers for the 10th year in a row🤷🏻‍♂️

Thanks to all those who didn't cite my work, keep doing this way! Up for anothe record next year!

#HighlyCited2024