Author: Cassie Martin / Source: Science News
Sorry to burst your bubbly, prosecco lovers, but skyrocketing demand for the sparkling wine might be sapping northeastern Italy’s vineyards of precious soil — 400 million kilograms of it per year, researchers report in a study posted online January 10 at bioRxiv.org
That’s a lot of soil, but not an anomaly. Vineyards in Germany, for example, have higher rates of soil loss, says Jesús Rodrigo Comino, a geographer at the Institute of Geomorphology and Soils in Málaga, Spain, who was not involved in the study.
And soil erosion isn’t necessarily a bad thing; it can help generate new soils to keep an ecosystem healthy.But the amount of…
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