the general principles of desert restoration include: Prioritizing areas for restoration, using criteria such as the degree of degradation of the ecosystem (e.g., lost plant cover, soil erosion ...

Such pulsing slowly turns stones in the arid desert to sand ... as deforestation and overgrazing can expedite erosion and strip the land of soils needed for food to grow.

Accelerated soil erosion is a common and environmentally destructive consequence of development, especially in mountain regions. Soil erosion is of special concern in agricultural lands, but ...

Not all farmlands are created equal — some are flat, some are on a moderate slope and some are hilly. On hilly agricultural ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

Soil erosion is usually located around bodies of water ... As bodies of water begin to dry, the land begins to turn into a desert. The land is no longer arable and can no longer support vegetation, ...

Desert Control, in their words ... maintaining the soil structure and mitigating against erosion. “Disrupting the soil by digging or cultivating breaks down these fungal structures which ...

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...