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The book titled “Global Soil and Climate (An Overview)” offers a comprehensive knowledge to the graduates and post-graduates in the field of Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry and Allied sciences. In this book in five chapters, given information about the climate of America, Africa, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Japan and Australia. Further in detail mentioned rivers of the African continent, European continent, North American continent, South American continent, Asian continent, Australian continent were discussed, In other chapter, Forests on the Earth mentioned about Influence of Climate on Forests, Climate Change Impact on Forest, Effects of Temperature, Precipitation, and CO2 Concentration Change, Impact of Climate Change on Forest Sector, Forest environment, Influence of forests on climatic conditions, edaphic conditions, Forest on biotic conditions, forest on pollution. Further, causes of global warming and solutions of global warming in Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Latin America, North America, Polar regions, Small Islands. In chapter, Soils of the World in different heading mentioned about Soil Classification, Influence of Climate on Soils, Approaches of Soil Study, Rock Minerals and Weathering, Chemical weathering of rocks, Biological process of weathering, Weathering of minerals, Soil formation, Soil Profile, Physical Properties of Soil, Soil Texture, Soil Structure, Soil Colloids, Soil moisture, Soil Water Potential, Role of Organic Matter Soil Reaction, Types of Soil Colloids. This book is the outcome of the inner zeal of authors to provide required information in the form of such a meaningful book which can be referred by the students, researchers, scientific community and farmers fraternity and extension professionals.