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  • So we'll erosion a double problem here in the east of England.

  • This isn't smog in the air.

  • It's soil on a hot, windy day.

  • Losing someone like this lowers our ability to grow crops.

  • It also releases carbon trapped in the earth and that contributes to climate change.

  • Seoul Degradations of problem said to affect almost half the world's people.

  • Look at this tsunami of dust last year in Phoenix, Arizona.

  • It's the result of a spectacular storm.

  • For most farmers saw the loss is a creeping problem that's only noticed too late.

  • 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.

  • So you imagine if all that carbon was released from the soil into the atmosphere, it would have.

  • This is the runaway climate change that people are concerned about.

  • So what to do?

  • Well, we know cows burps are a problem for climate change, but they're dung also helps put carbon back into the soil.

  • So this mobile dairy in the south of England may prove part of a solution.

  • It means cow spread their dung across the fields, not leave it in the farmyard.

  • That way, nutrients and carbon from the past year returned to the soil is the evidence.

  • This field, with its light stony soil, is depleted from crops grown with chemical fertilisers.

  • See the much darker, carbon rich soil in the far plowed field previously fertilized by cows.

  • So we'll erosion a double problem.

  • 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.

  • That way.

  • Nutrients and carbon from the past year returned to the soil.

  • This field, with its light stony soil, is depleted from crops grown with chemical fertilizers.

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So we'll erosion a double problem here in the east of England.

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