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, ...

All Pennsylvania farmers are required to have an Erosion and Sediment Control plan on file and put it into practice, unless ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

When it comes to the land, the European Union faces a reckoning ... I started a project to assess soil erosion and degradation in vineyards using geographical mapping systems and artificial ...

A study led by Professor Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity’s most ...