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Climate and drought are the perfect recipe for disruption (not just) in California
During extended drought periods, soil loses its ability to absorb water, writes The New York Times. When rain occurs, landslide risk increases. A combination of phenomena that climate change makes increasingly frequent

The water cycle has changed. And it favors floods and droughts
Extreme rainfall concentrated in short periods is becoming more frequent just like months characterized by exceptionally low rainfall, scientists from the Global Water Monitor Consortium explain. Growth in duration and severity of heat waves causes "flash droughts" especially in Europe and China

At the end of July, a global meeting on the link between healthy soil and nutrition
From 26 to 29 July, hundreds of representatives from the political, agricultural, environmental, scientific and industrial world will participate in the Global Symposium on Soil for nutrition. Until the end of May, a call of abstracts to propose reports to be presented during the days of the event. Here the main themes

Wildfires are putting corporations and carbon market in trouble
Prompted by climate change, wildfires are devastating larger portions of the forests that generate the emission credits sold to the corporations

Microbes, soil and CO2: diversity is better
According to a U.S. study, a healthy soil with a wider diversity of microbes is capable of capturing more CO2