Black soil covering white snow in ditches during the winter and clouds of dirt swirling across fields, farms and roads are stark evidence that erosion is a major threat to soil health. Despite a ...

Ten years later, travels across North Dakota during the winter of 2024-25 indicated that wind erosion remains the greatest threat to the state’s soil health, Carlos Pires and Brady Goettl, NDSU ...

It offers an effective bioengineering technique for mitigating soil erosion in harsh conditions — high temperatures during a drought, flooding conditions caused by typhoons and heavy storms.

Kochi: Chellanam Kochi Janakeeya Vedi (CKJV) has said that temporary protective measures are inadequate to protect the coast from sea erosion. Construction of tetrapod sea walls, north of ...

OPINION: Let’s stop treating our soil like dirt. One of the most underappreciated resources on our planet, soil does much more than grow crops. ... between 10 and 30 gigatons of soil is lost through ...

Across much of the Midwest, the atmosphere is becoming warmer and retaining more water, leading to heavier downpours. A ...

Wood chips can provide an extra layer to the soil surface, helping absorb water faster to prevent it from seeping into the soil. Meanwhile, rock riprap and pebbles reduce the rate of runoff ...

The revitalization process also focused on altering the pattern of the stream, and slowing it down, to stop soil erosion. "We used a method called natural stream channel design," Winquist said.

Gully erosion is the most severe form of soil erosion, and it can seriously impact agricultural fields, contributing to sediment loss and nutrient runoff into waterways. ... Methodology helps prevent ...

Soil in the construction area could become contaminated and nearly 200 truck trips daily during the six-year construction period would degrade area roads, the analysis found.

“No-till reduces soil erosion 80-90%,” DeLong said. Water health can be helped by edge-of-the-field practices such as ...