However, these measures cannot be effective unless risk areas of soil erosion are identified. A quantitative approach is therefore required to better identify such risk areas for improving land ...

Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes ... as payments for carbon storage, flood control and water quality improvement, and ...

Considering the diversity of methods employed in the investigation ... of earth constructed across a slope to control runoff and minimize soil erosion tile drainage - the use of sub-surface ...

China saw a steady improvement in soil ... erosion. The ministry attributed the improvement in part to strengthened oversight of activities that could trigger erosion. Advances in monitoring ...

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 ...

Buffer zones create boundaries between regions, enhancing water quality, preventing soil erosion, and supporting biodiversity ...

"In recent years, Jiangxi has seen a significant enhancement in ecosystem quality, driven by soil erosion control efforts that involve scientific planning and systematic governance. This provides ...

The Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture (RICA) on March 28, hosted Rwanda’s first-ever Conservation Agriculture Symposium, bringing together key stakeholders to assess the impact of soil ...

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 ...