Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

All Pennsylvania farmers are required to have an Erosion and Sediment Control plan on file and put it into practice, unless ...

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

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

Erosion is the process that wears away the river ... making it heavy and liable to slide. Soil creep is a very slow movement, occurring on very gentle slopes because of the way soil particles ...

While water erosion continues to be the most serious cause of soil degradation globally, innovative strategies that remediate important soil functions can restore the productivity of eroded soils.

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, a factor that's underestimated in considering the carbon ...

A study of 82 sites in 21 counties by Iowa State University showed that in the 50 years from 1959, soil structure and levels of organic matter had degraded while acidity had increased. “Erosion ...

The former group of techniques is used to assess the magnitude of soil erosion and the impact of soil conservation measures on soil erosion, while the latter helps identify sediment sources and ...

The dense canopy creates a unique microenvironment where light is ... attract pollinators to hardy groundcovers that prevent ...

BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Water Resources revealed on Friday that the country's soil erosion area decreased to 2.6019 million square kilometers in 2024, marking a reduction of ...