"This soil type often washes away more easily than others from rain and water, so it's best to plant ground covering perennials in spots where the soil is exposed to avoid erosion." Identifying ...

The distance that eroded sediments travel is a function of the type of erosion, the degree of disturbance experienced by the soils, and the connectivity to water channels. Most material mobilized ...

Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, ...

Nanoplastics are an increasing threat to the ecosystem; however, their mobility in the soil is still underexplored. Against this backdrop, researchers investigated the adsorption and aggregation ...

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 ...

For example, acid rain dissolves limestone to form karst, a type of terrain filled ... and overgrazing can expedite erosion and strip the land of soils needed for food to grow.

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, ...

The GR also included statistics on the soil erosion losses. Soil erosion renders the land useless for agriculture purposes, at least in the year it happens, say farmers who see it as a worse loss ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river bed and banks. Erosion also breaks up the rocks that are carried by the river.