Forest soil stores water, carbon and nutrients for trees and also provides a habitat for living organisms. When managing ...

Slopes greater than ten percent are better suited to other practices, like terracing.

with the west-facing slopes receiving more rainfall and higher cloud cover, leading to higher soil moisture retention. “The N-S and W-E asymmetries interact to create a situation where northwest ...

Tilling soils, which includes ploughing, is known to move significant amounts of soil down slopes and adds to erosion caused by weather. On sloping land, tillage causes soils to move down off the ...

Soil that was eroded from the slopes into the Jordan Valley accumulated above the sediments of the ancience Lake Lisan Soil that was eroded from the slopes into the ...

Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study published in Nature Food finds. For centuries, farmers have tilled the soil in their ...