A research team proposes a method to calculate, compare and communicate how different crops affect the loss of agricultural soil, with the aim of raising awareness of this problem and promoting ...

Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly around the world over the next 50 years due to climate change and intensive land cultivation. Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly ...

A study of eroding black soil croplands in northeastern China found that microbial communities adapted to erosion stress ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reached a significant milestone in the first week of April, surpassing 510 properties cleared of debris from the wildfires that devastated West Maui on Aug. 8, 2023.

The American dust bowl of the 1930s demonstrated the ruinous consequences of soil degradation. Decades of farming practices had stripped the Great Plains of their fertile heritage, making them ...