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Increasing land take, soil sealing and loss of ecosystem functions due to soil and land degradation have been recognised as major environmental and socioeconomic challenges, both in the EU and worldwide. In 2015, the UN put forward the 2030 Agenda, with 17 interdependent Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Many of the SDGs reflect challenges related to land and soil. This report comprises of a review of the state of affairs in the EU related to the implementation of the land and soil related SDGs. Literature reviews, policy mapping, EU wide soil data analysis, combined with national surveys and targeted interviews were carried out. A set of recommendations for related to the way forward to more effective implementation and widespread uptake of sustainable land and soil management addressed to the following four stakeholder groups are given: (i) practitioners and endusers; (ii) scientist; (iii) policymakers and (iv) citizens. Toenemend ruimtebeslag, bodemafdekking en verlies van ecosysteemfuncties als gevolg van bodemen landdegradatie worden zowel in de EU als wereldwijd gezien als grote ecologische en sociaaleconomische uitdagingen. In 2015 hebben de VN de Agenda 2030 voorgesteld, met 17 samenhangende duurzame ontwikkelingsdoelstellingen (SDG's). Veel van de SDG's hebben een relatie met opgaves die verband houden met land en bodem. Dit rapport bevat een overzicht van de stand van zaken in de EU met betrekking tot de implementatie van de land-en bodemgerelateerde SDG's. Dit overzicht werd tot stand gebracht door literatuuronderzoek, een beleidsanalyse, analyse van bodemgegevens in de hele EU, gecombineerd met nationale enquêtes en gerichte interviews. Er wordt een reeks aanbevelingen gedaan gericht op vier doelgroepen om de implementatie en acceptatie van duurzaam land-en bodembeheer in de EU te bevorderen: (i) eindgebruikers; (ii) wetenschappers; (iii) beleidsmakers en (iv) burgers.

In 1988 Congress allowed construction of three telescopes on Mount Graham, a desert "sky island" northeast of here, prompting the U.S. Forest Service to order a long-range study to monitor the population of an endangered subspecies of red squirrel that lives here. The results are now in. But the findings--that the work to date has had "no significant effect" on the rare rodents--have done little to resolve a debate that is expected to heat up again next year when the University of Arizona seeks permission to build four more telescopes.

Conservationists have long contended, largely in impressionistic terms, that 70 years of American dam building and water diversion have destroyed the biological richness of the Colorado River delta, a key nursery of marine life at the end of the Southwest's great watercourse. Now researchers have confirmed those suspicions, using an important ecological player--clams--as a quantitative marker.

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