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the original internet, where one teaspoon holds more living things than there are humans alive
means The loose top layer of earth in which plants grow, made of minerals, organic matter, water, air, and a vast living community of microbes and creatures.
from From Old French 'soil,' meaning ground or land, drawn from Latin 'solum' — the floor, the base, the bottom of things, the very ground you stand on. There's an old tangle here: the Latin 'solium' (a seat or throne) and 'solea' (the sole of a shoe) hover nearby and may have muddied the word's growth, so 'soil' ends up meaning the earth beneath your feet in more ways than one.
tiny multitudesOne gram can hold billions of organisms
slow buildOne inch takes centuries to form
carbon vaultHolds more carbon than air and plants combined
antibiotic sourcePenicillin and most antibiotics came from soil microbes
finite resourceA third of Earth's soil is already degraded