By Eric Hange Grassed waterways are a familiar sight on many farms, quietly doing their job year after year. Because they ...

Soil erosion is the removal of soil by water, wind, ice or gravity and sediment deposition occurs when the rate of surface flow is insufficient for the transport of soil particles. Often, these two ...

Soil erosion is a multifaceted process that not only degrades the landscape but also has significant environmental and socio-economic consequences. Within this broad field, piping dynamics refer to ...

Soil erosion is widely known for degrading land and reducing agricultural productivity. But new research shows it may also play a far more complex and important role in regulating the global nitrogen ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A front yard with a timber retaining wall and ground cover plants to combat soil erosion - SANLYN/Shutterstock If you have a slope ...

Black soil covering white snow in ditches during the winter and clouds of dirt swirling across fields, farms and roads are stark evidence that erosion is a major threat to soil health. Despite a “Wake ...

Long before irrigation pivots and improved turf varieties, native grasses were quietly doing the hard work.

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Soil erosion, the most common type of land degradation, ...

A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...

In the hills, survival depends on understanding the land. When rainfall is intense and slopes are steep, soil and water can ...