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While images of the latest disaster linked to extreme weather events flow around the world from Valencia, one report has gone almost unnoticed.It's called State of Soils in Europe 2024 and is the result of joint research by the Joint Research Center (JRC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA).The report shows how land degradation continues unabated across Europe.Due to various factors – such as intensive agriculture, monocultures and the use of nutrients that aim exclusively to increase productivity without regenerating the land – the continental soil is increasingly impoverished and impermeable.Yet, the two issues are closely related:if it is true that extreme events such as floods are increasing in frequency due to climate change (3 to 5 times more than half a century ago, according to statistics), the tragic implications in terms of victims and the destruction they cause could be significantly reduced through mitigation strategies.Among these, maintaining the soil's...