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.

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, ...

Erosion is often accelerated by agricultural ... desertification: Conversion and degradation of land which previously supported to plant growth, in arid or semi-arid regions, to desert land.

The problems of soil degradation are significantly exacerbated by soil erosion — the wearing away of the topsoil, by wind, water, etc. US soils are now eroding up to 1,000 times faster than they ...

Implementing these strategies requires a coordinated approach, combining public policy with community involvement to effectively ...

Although erosion is a natural process, abusive land-use practices such as deforestation and overgrazing can expedite erosion and strip the land of soils needed for food to grow.

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 ...

A new study published in Ecological Processes by researchers at the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of ...

Many industries have benefited from the availability and affordability of uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) as applications for ...

Agriculture, deforestation, overgrazing, and the use of chemicals on soils all contribute to its degradation, which can lead to erosion, problems with soil salinity or acidity, fertility decline ...

The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) has announced major investment plans which aim to ...

As a torrent of mud, timber and boulders roared through Foreman Creek in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Dec. 13, 2021, video later posted to YouTube by county officials showed an avalanche of debris ...