Over the last 3,800 years, agro-pastoral activities have accelerated alpine soil erosion at a pace four to 10 times faster ...

(Mass Appeal) – April 22 is Earth Day, and we thought it would be fun to experiment with erosion using three basic materials: plastic bottles, soil, and water. Dr. Yadilette Rivera-Colón, Boa… ...

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...

The Orleans County Natural Resources Conservation District has secured $600,000 in federal grant funding to address soil and ...

The researchers decided to conduct another test, going to 13 tidal creeks in the Elkhorn Slough estuary to perform a before-after comparison. The study determined that erosion rates were 69% lower ...

Deep bed farming reduces soil erosion and compaction. When soil is compacted, or pressed together too tightly, it does not retain water. This is important in Malawi, which has suffered a number of El ...

But experiments conducted at Oregon State University show that may not always be the case. Researchers found that newly planted vegetation can actually accelerate erosion in the face of extreme ...

Midwest soil is eroding at an alarming rate according to new, first-of-its-kind research. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is ...

Flooding caused by frozen soil on the Palouse in February was one of the largest events in 30 years, Pacific Northwest soil scientists say. Historically high stream flows across the […] ...

Core drilling barge on Bourget Lake in Savoie, during the drilling of the sediments accumulated at the bottom of the ...