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So we'll erosion a double problem here in the east of England.
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This isn't smog in the air.
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It's soil on a hot, windy day.
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Losing someone like this lowers our ability to grow crops.
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It also releases carbon trapped in the earth and that contributes to climate change.
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Seoul Degradations of problem said to affect almost half the world's people.
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Look at this tsunami of dust last year in Phoenix, Arizona.
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It's the result of a spectacular storm.
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For most farmers saw the loss is a creeping problem that's only noticed too late.
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Soils are an important for climate change as well, because they saw a lot of carbon that's three times more carbon stored in soil than there actually is in the atmosphere.
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So you imagine if all that carbon was released from the soil into the atmosphere, it would have.
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This is the runaway climate change that people are concerned about.
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So what to do?
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Well, we know cows burps are a problem for climate change, but they're dung also helps put carbon back into the soil.
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So this mobile dairy in the south of England may prove part of a solution.
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It means cow spread their dung across the fields, not leave it in the farmyard.
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That way, nutrients and carbon from the past year returned to the soil is the evidence.
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This field, with its light stony soil, is depleted from crops grown with chemical fertilisers.
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See the much darker, carbon rich soil in the far plowed field previously fertilized by cows.
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So we'll erosion a double problem.
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Seoul Degradations of Problem said to affect almost half the world's people, but they're dung also helps put carbon back into the soil.
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That way.
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Nutrients and carbon from the past year returned to the soil.
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This field, with its light stony soil, is depleted from crops grown with chemical fertilizers.
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