08 Feb 2025

Consistent soil data are required to underpin a wide range of environmental and societal issues. Metadata from the ISRIC – World Soil Information GeoNetwork catalogue are now discoverable and accessible from DataONE. DataONE is a community driven programme providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data.

05 Feb 2025

ISRIC is thrilled to present the "World of Soils" Lecture Series! Join us as we explore the fascinating and diverse world of soils, delving into topics that reveal the important role soils play in our environment, art, agriculture, daily lives and more. The lectures take place every four months at the World Soil Museum. After the lecture, attendees are welcome to visit the museum.

31 Jan 2025

Workshop activities include, amongst others, painting and drawing with soil material (sight), smelling soil (smell), blindfolded touching and feeling soil (touch), soil tasting and soil toothpaste brushing (taste), and listening to soil sounds (hearing). Participants will ultimately select the soil type with which they most closely identify (anthropomorphism).

15 Jan 2025

ISRIC recently launched an online resource library offering educational and technical soil information resources and tools for global users. The open-access resource library is designed for a diverse audience, including readers, learners, academic researchers, and professionals seeking specialised knowledge and practices related to soil information.

17 Dec 2024

ISRIC is pleased to announce the release of its latest Annual Report, detailing the organisation's key achievements during 2022 and 2023.

12 Dec 2024

A paper titled “A European soil organic carbon monitoring system leveraging Sentinel 2 imagery and the LUCAS soil database” was recently published in Geoderma. The paper is the direct scientific outcome of the European Space Agency (ESA) funded WorldSoils project.

04 Dec 2024

ISRIC has initiated DNA sequencing of their reference soil collection. This collection comprises reference soil samples from some 1,100 profiles collected worldwide over the past six decades.

03 Dec 2024

Caring for Soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage. The theme of this year's World Soil Day underscores the importance of quality assessed and standardised soil data and information in understanding soils properties and supporting informed decision-making on sustainable soil management for food security and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

19 Nov 2024

In September of this year, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), its Global Soil Partnership (GSP) and the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISSCAS) co-organised a Global Symposium on Soil Information and Data (GSID24) in Nanjing, China.

13 Nov 2024

FARA), ISRIC and CABI, supported by FAO, have signed an implementation agreement to establish a continent-wide partnership to enhance soil information systems in Africa.