Soil erosion reduces the productivity of ecosystems, it changes nutrient cycles and it thus directly impacts climate and society. An international team of researchers, including Professor Pierre ...

Oct. 29 (UPI) --New research suggests human activities resulted in accelerated soil erosion some 4,000 years ago. At millennial time scales, rock weathering and soil erosion is dictated by the ...

Pastoralism in the Alps. At a time when soil erosion threatens our societies by impacting biodiversity, carbon dioxide storage, and food production capacity, it is crucial to study and quantify its ...

Human activity causes 10 times more erosion of continental surfaces than all natural processes combined, an analysis by a University of Michigan geologist shows. ANN ARBOR, Mich. --- Human activity ...

Jo Handelsman, Obama’s former science advisor, explains why more farms are experiencing erosion, and how it reduces crop yields. The following is an excerpt from A World Without Soil: The Past, ...

Over 45 billion tons of soil are lost to erosion every year. Farmers and agricultural authorities in several countries have succeeded in slowing down erosion with the help of nuclear techniques. Here ...

“Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought” — John Charles Salak. Today the saga that is Easter Island’s past is well known. The ...

THE observed coastal morphology changes in several towns in Zambales are influenced by the long-term geomorphological ...

Soil erosion reduces the productivity of ecosystems, it changes nutrient cycles and it thus directly impacts climate and society. An international team of researchers, recorded temporal changes of ...