For example, acid rain dissolves limestone to form karst, a type of terrain filled ... and overgrazing can expedite erosion and strip the land of soils needed for food to grow.

The distance that eroded sediments travel is a function of the type of erosion, the degree of disturbance experienced by the soils, and the connectivity to water channels. Most material mobilized ...

"This soil type often washes away more easily than others from rain and water, so it's best to plant ground covering perennials in spots where the soil is exposed to avoid erosion." Identifying ...

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, ...

Soil erosion is a part of soil degradation. It's when the topsoil and nutrients are lost either naturally, such as via wind erosion, or due to human actions, such as poor land management. There are ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

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.

Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, ...

He says soil erosion has been a long-time concern. The soil in their county was 34 inches deep in 1960. Fast forward to 2014, it was about 15 inches deep. “All soil types on bare ground are ...

The goal is to create a physics-informed machine learning model of soil burn severity that not only predicts wildfire impacts ...

We analyzed 394 studies encompassing 275 unique species or types of soil organisms and 284 different pesticides or pesticide mixtures. While previous studies have looked at particular pesticide ...