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Soil
Soil is the essential resource that makes our worldwide food supply possible. It is threatened by erosion, degradation and pollution. We should know more about it, but even after thousands of years of human agriculture, centuries of religious and cultural reverence as the source of creation, and decades of scientific research, soil remains a mystery.
The vast majority of us never give soil a second thought. Our story for National Geographic sought to make these connections, to take readers down into the soil, to make it the actor in our narrative in ways that make soil and its workings a thing of beauty and wonder.
The vast majority of us never give soil a second thought. Our story for National Geographic sought to make these connections, to take readers down into the soil, to make it the actor in our narrative in ways that make soil and its workings a thing of beauty and wonder.
