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The surprising science of how drought affects the health of our soils.
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Project engineer at the European Space Agency.
Professor of plant-soil processes at Sheffield University.
She is a science journalist discussing various scientific impacts.
Virologist at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam.
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