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There’s an ecosystem beneath your feet—and it needs protection, says new report

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Elizabeth PennisiReach down and scoop up some soil. Cupped in your hands may be 5000 different kinds of creatures—and as many individual cells as there are humans on the globe.

That random handful might hold microscopic fungi, decomposing plant matter, a whisker-size nematode munching on the fungi, and a predatory, pinhead-size mite about to pounce on the nematode.

One bacterium may fend off another with a potent antibiotic. It’s a whole world of often overlooked biodiversity.Today, on the eve of World Soil Day, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations  (FAO) has released its first-ever global assessment of the biodiversity in this underground world.

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