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, ...

As pollution and climate issues worsen, farmers and agricultural workers often face challenges in maintaining the integrity of the land in their environment.

Water erosion is the most widespread form of soil degradation globally (Figure ... processes involving water movement and storage land degradation - the loss of key land functions (e.g., water ...

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 ...

Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year.

of agricultural land. The mechanical agitation of soil, called tillage erosion and a common practice in agriculture, can also initiate soil degradation. Other forms of erosion include wind erosion ...

Soil fertility is the ability of soil to ... while minimizing the mining of soil nutrient reserves and the degradation of the physical and chemical properties of soil that can lead to land degradation ...

However, approximately two-thirds of the continent’s productive land is degraded – it has lost its productive capacity – to some degree. This is driven by years of overgrazing, inappropriate ...

have launched the "BRICS Land Restoration Partnership" to combat land degradation and promote sustainable agriculture within its expanded 11-member group. The initiative aims to create a fairer ...

If current land degradation trends continue ... other vegetation where it doesn't exist helps to improve soil quality and prevent erosion. But as the Great Green Wall in the Sahel demonstrated ...