The Degradation of Soil Globally

The fastest rate of loss has been happening in the last 200 years, since the industrial revolution. We've released on the order of ta hundred and 20 billion metric tons of carbon that was in soil into the atmosphera. So it's a a portion of the co two keep releasing to the atmosphere. Carbon that woulds tad in the soil system is not staying, but rather going back into the atmosphere as greenhouse gases.