FEMA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have confirmed they will instead rely on removing a 6-inch layer of topsoil.

A revolutionary land management model is being applied across the fields of Northeast China to restore its precious and ...

There are three main British soils; podzol, brown earth and gley. Podzols are easily recognisable by their distinct layers or horizons. A grey or light-coloured 'E' horizon is the result of severe ...

Soils are becoming severely degraded due to a combination of intensive farming practices and natural processes. As the layer of fertile topsoil thins, it gets increasingly difficult to grow crops ...

However, in the 1990s, a growing number of farmers, including those in Lishu county, Jilin province, a major maize-producing county, found that the black soil was revealing yellow layers ...