The IUSS is the global union of soil scientists. Our objectives are to promote all branches of Soil Science and to support all soil scientists across the world.
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🌱 Celebrate #WorldSoilDay 2026! Share the FAO Soil Collage Student Contest with universities, professors and student networks.
🌍 Open to students from all disciplines, with 5 regional winners and 1 global winner receiving international recognition!
🔗 fao.org/world-soil-day/conte…
What can you do for the soil beneath your campus? 🌱 Join the Soil Collage contest: discover, collaborate and propose practical actions for healthier soils!
Join now 👉🏿 tiny.cc/jn1c101
#SoilCompaction #SoilHealth #GlobalSoilPartnership #WorldSoilDay
Do not miss this opportunity ⭐️
Nominations are now open for the BSSS Outstanding Society Contribution Award 2026 (OSCA), recognising the valuable work of our volunteers and highlighting outstanding contributions made by our members.
Nominations close at 5pm on Friday 6 November.
soils.org.uk/news/nomination…
📖 NEW BOOK | Soil Profiles: With Photos by Roy Simonson
By Alfred Hartemink
🌱 More than 150 photographs reveal soils as archives of landscape history, recording climate, vegetation, parent material, topography and human use horizon by horizon.
🔎 link.springer.com/book/10.10…
🌱 IV Soil Science Meeting of the Northwestern Regional Nucleus
📅 3–4 Dec 2026 Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil
Hybrid Free registration
📢 Scientific paper submissions close: 31 Oct 2026
👉 even3.com.br/noroeste2026-75…
📘 Applied Pedology, by Simone Priori, provides a comprehensive overview of soil properties, survey and classification, soil quality monitoring, digital soil technologies and applications in agriculture, land-use planning and sustainable forestry.
📖 store.youcanprint.it/applied…
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📣 The IUSS is on Instagram instagram.com/iuss1924/ join the largest soil sciences community in the world 🌎 to stay connected! Let’s strengthen our network and bring forward soil sciences 🌱
#IUSS100 #joinus #Instagram
🌱 BSSS Annual Conference 2026
📍 Aberdeen, UK | 📅 1–4 December
“Soils at the Centre of Change: Innovation, Adaptation and Action”
📢 Poster abstracts: 23 Oct
🎟️ Registration open
👉 Details & registration bsssconference.org.uk
#SoilScience #BSSS2026 #Soils #SoilHealth
📢 BSSS Executive Director Addresses The Media At #COP17
Andrew Morris and the other members of the UNCCD Civil Society Organisation (CSO) panel addressed the media to highlight key messages and actions.
Watch the full press conference here: ow.ly/Mihs50ZB1Fr
🎥 © UNCCD
Microplastic: a new frontier for soil science
Microplastics in terrestrial
ecosystems: Soil contamination and its implications for pedology. Rev Bras Cienc Solo.
2026;50nspe1:e0250052. doi.org/10.36783/18069657rbc…
rbcsjournal.org/article/micr…
‼️ Save the date
🇵🇾 San Lorenzo, Paraguay
📆 June 8-11, 2027
ℹ️ [email protected]
#IUSS100 #SOPACIS #concurso
The IUSS mourns the loss of his Honorary Member, distinguished scholar and friend Prof. Jaume Bech
An online registry for condolences is available at this link: memora.es/ca/esqueles-defunc…
Our thoughts are with his family, and loved ones.
Photo credit: Universitat de Barcelona
🧊Plastic contamination has become a global concern, with evidence in remote regions like Antarctica.
📑IUSS Chair of Division 4, Prof. Claudio Zaccone and the University of Verona, participated into this study
👓 Read it all here nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
Photo credits ANSA
🎉 The IUSS warmly congratulates its newly appointed President Elect, Prof. Rosa M. Poch Claret, whishes her every success in her new role, and looks forward to the important contributions she will make to the future of the IUSS! Ad maiora‼️
#IUSS100 #PresidentElect
🌍 Soil Sciences for Sustainable Development
The Global Evidence Synthesis Report is now available!
🌱 Discover how soil sciences can help build a more sustainable future.
🔗 Read the full report: iuss.org/decade-of-soil-scie…
#IUSS100 #SDGs #paper #IUSSScholarship
📆 Save the date IUSS Commission 3.5 and 3.7
‼️ Deadline for registration and abstracts January 31, 2027
📍3rd Workshop on Soil degradation, control, remediation and reclamation
🌎 Potsdam, Germany, June 9-11, 2027
#IUSS100 #workshop #IUSSCommissions #remediation #reclamation
