A study of 82 sites in 21 counties by Iowa State University showed that in the 50 years from 1959, soil structure and levels of organic matter had degraded while acidity had increased. “Erosion ...

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 way people treat land sets the time scale in which it is able to treat people well back in return," Montgomery said. "I don't think there was a society where soil erosion was the only factor ...

When the glacier begins to melt, it deposits its cargo of soil and rock ... nature's weathered sculptures. Although erosion is a natural process, abusive land-use practices such as deforestation ...

While water erosion continues to be the ... hydrologic function - the capacity of a soil to perform processes involving water movement and storage land degradation - the loss of key land functions ...

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 ...

"Soil erosion causes reduced land productivity, ecosystem destruction, water scarcity and increased nonpoint source pollution, presenting significant challenges to ecological civilization," Zheng ...