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Soil Contamination Puts Global Agriculture at Risk

Summary by C3 Solutions
New research highlights a largely overlooked risk to food production systems: widespread soil contamination by heavy metals. A large-scale analysis of nearly 800,000 global soil samples found that about 17% of the world’s surface soils exceed safe thresholds for at least one toxic metal. For the agriculture sector, that’s a red flag not just for food security, but also for long-term business continuity. Roughly 242 million hectares of cropland—a…
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C3 Solutions broke the news in on Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
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