The list of how humans are causing trouble in the soil is pretty mind-blowing, kind of overwhelming. It’s connected to all that is central to our modern human societies - industrial agriculture, synthetic chemistry, city sprawl, global mobility and so on and on. In this episode, Matthias Rillig, Anja Krieger and their guests Maddy Thakur and Asmeret Asefaw Berhe explore the human impacts on soil and their cascading effects.

Subscribe and learn more on rilliglab.org/podcast/Episode transcript: https://rilliglab.org/2021/03/05/life-in-the-soil-podcast-5-global-change/

CREDITS + LINKSProduced by: Anja Krieger and the Rillig Lab https://rilliglab.orgFunded by: Digging Deeper / BiodivERsA www.biodiversa.org/Guest experts in this episode: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Maddy ThakurAdditional Voices in intro: Diana Wall, Richard BardgettStory consultants: Stefan Hempel, Gaowen Yang, Milos BielcikThanks to Joscha Grunewald for helping us improve the sound https://www.joschagrunewald.com/

Cover art: Maren von Stockhausen http://marenvonstockhausen.deTheme song: Sunfish Moon Light / Future Ecologies www.futureecologies.netMusic: Julius Stucke / Klangpflaster https://klangpflaster.de/

The Digging Deeper project was funded through the 2015-2016 BiodivERsA COFUND call for research proposals, with the national funders Swiss National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Swedish Research Council Formas, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and Agence Nationale de la Recherche.