USUALLY the soil is regarded as something particularly stable, but this stability is almost wholly due to its normal covering of vegetation. There is always a danger that if the cover of ...

Taking Ganzhou city as an example, influenced by various factors including natural geography, the region was once one of the ...

“A lot of soil erosion is in the form of ephemeral gullies,” says Jay Ford, a USDA–Natural Resources Conservation Service district conservationist in Denison, Iowa. “Putting eroded soil ...

Meanwhile, climate change continues to dry the ground: three-quarters of Spain is at risk of becoming desert. But perhaps the biggest threat to soil is intensive farming. The need to feed a ...