by Angelica De Vito with Luciano Canova

A podcast produced in partnership with NatPower |

The issue of land and soil quality rarely takes center stage when discussing ecological transition. Yet, in the European Union alone, urbanization, desertification, erosion, and soil sealing lead to the loss of tens of thousands of square kilometers of productive land each year. Not to mention the further damage caused by intensive farming and groundwater pollution. But when and how did this all start? What are the health risks when the soil is under threat? And what solutions are currently available? We attempt to answer these questions in the second episode of Mission Earth, traveling through the "Terre dei Fuochi” (Land of Fires) in Campania and Veneto, with a stop in Chile.