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7 Φεβ 2020 · How Does Soil Erosion Affect Climate Change? Erosion degrades land, which means it can support fewer plants that can take in climate-warming carbon dioxide. Soils themselves could potentially sequester enough greenhouse gases in a year to equal about 5% of all annual human-made GHG emissions.
Soils that affect human health include natural soil, which usually has little anthropogenic contamination, and soils in agroecosystems, urban areas, mines, oil and gas extraction areas, landfill sites and other locations where anthropogenic contamination is more likely.
The effects of soil erosion go beyond the loss of fertile land. It has led to increased pollution and sedimentation in streams and rivers, clogging these waterways and causing declines in fish and other species. And degraded lands are also often less able to hold onto water, which can worsen flooding.
This section aims to present recent scientific evidence linking soil pollution with human health impacts and major exposure pathways, and to emphasize the need for improved monitoring of health risks including the development of harmonized and reliable indicators for soil pollution.
26 Νοε 2020 · Soil erosion plot-scale studies have shown that land use and cover have a dominant influence on soil losses, with erosion rates on arable and bare land that may exceed rates of soil formation...
1 Δεκ 2023 · Results. The results compiled from various sources showed that prolonged exposure to pollutants is associated with human health effects. Due to these toxic pollutants present in more than their permissible limit in the environment. These are causing a serious damage in the natural environment as well as human health.
26 Αυγ 2022 · Erosion not only changes the physical properties of the soil but also affects its chemical properties. Reduction of organic matter by erosion will have many harmful consequences.
