While water erosion continues to be the most serious cause of soil degradation globally, innovative strategies that remediate important soil functions can restore the productivity of eroded soils.

Without altering agricultural practices and urgently finding ways to preserve soil, the global food supply starts to look precarious. Even in Iowa’s still-fertile fields, the loss of soil is ...

Josie Lynch, a researcher from the university, has been using a drone to take photographs of the fields and the erosion. She ...

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

But did you know this mixed clump of clothing fibers could actually save your garden from soil erosion? Most types of soil ...

Land degradation from soil erosion has been considered by many to be a problem of significant proportion, affecting some 30–50% of the earth's land surface. At the time of the first publication of ...

Confronted with the catastrophic loss of crops, infrastructure, markets — and even a resource as fundamental as topsoil — the local agriculture industry is doing its best to stay afloat after ...