A new IUSS Bulletin is available on www.iuss.org and in this bulletin information on the upcoming World Congress of Soil Science in June 2014; the list of 2014-2018 Division and Commission Chairs and Vice chairs (welcome!); the IUSS Dokuchaev award to Alex McBratney and the von Liebig award to Magdi Selim; 5 questions to Megan Balks, Brenda Buck and Eric Brevik, the favourite books of Tom Sauer and Yakov Pachepsky; reports of meetings, and a list of new soil publications.