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Films, videos & podcasts for soil biodiversity

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Soil Superheroes: 50 trillion

Delve into the vital statistics of earthworms. The third episode in UKCEH's 'Counting the Earth' podcast series features UKCEH scientists & Ellen Fay from Sustainable Soils Alliance.
Soil life, soil biodiversity, and human well-being.

Keep soil alive, protect soil biodiversity

Soil is alive!
Recordings of soils alive with different organisms.

Sounding soil

Recordings of soils alive with different organisms.
Videos showing the behaviour of three different earthworm species.

Three earthworm species

Time-lapse videos showing the behaviour of three different earthworm species.
Earthworms decomposing making soil.

The Importance of Soil Biodiversity

Decomposition with and without earthworms.
Nematodes soil food web claymation.

Soil food web

Soil food web.
Soil animals photography

When Soil Biodiversity Meets Art - with Christopher Marley

New ways of looking at the creatures that live in soil.

Vermicompost - Life in the compost bin

A video showing two weeks in a typical vermicompost.

Bioturbation - Worms at Work - With and without fauna

A video showing bioturbation and the difference worms make in this process

Soils host a quarter of our planet’s biodiversity

Invisible soil life

The Living Soil Beneath Our Feet

Invisible soil life.