Over the last 3,800 years, agro-pastoral activities have accelerated alpine soil erosion at a pace 4-10 times faster than ...

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 ...

That is, instead of making furrows straight up and down, planting should be done across the slopes so as to hold the soil more effectively. Erosion is not a huge problem in Mauritius, in spite of ...

Soil erosion, the most common type of land degradation, is a natural process that displaces the upper layer of soil, which is where plants get most of their nutrients and water needed for growing.

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