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 ...

Erosion is all around us, from the meandering course of rivers and other waterways, to the gradual carving out of channels in even the toughest mountains, and the softening of features in statues.

Sandbars swirl beneath Oregon Inlet in Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Waves driven by ocean winds can cause the sandbars here to shift and change literally by the ...

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.

A third of the world’s soil is moderately to highly degraded, threatening global food supplies, increasing carbon emissions and foreshadowing mass migration. A change in farming practices has never ...

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 ...

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The parched conditions in southern Australia are set to continue into autumn and farmers are facing difficult decisions regarding soil cover management. While those with livestock are tempted to ...

In the late 1990s, South Dakota farmer Kurt Stiefvater was ready to give up on the transition to no-till. He’d been no-tilling crops for a decade. But he admits he didn’t understand how it ...

Cliffs close cliffA vertical rock face. along the coastline do not erode at the same pace. A cliff is a steep rock face. When a stretch of coastline is formed from different types of rock ...