Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order ... methanogenesis: is the process of formation of methane from the decomposition of organic matter by a group of microbes known as ...

Historically, conventional agriculture has accelerated soil erosion to rates that exceed that of soil formation (Table 2). Erosion is often accelerated by agricultural practices that leave the ...

Study: Redistributing soil can restore nutrients, improve water retention, and significantly boost crop yields on eroded ...

Soil formation is a complex and gradual process ... Soil creation, just like soil erosion, is influenced by environmental factors such as temperature changes, water, and wind.

An introduction to the study of soils: physical, chemical and biological properties of soils; soil formation, description ... processes of degradation (including erosion, desertification, pollution, ...

Erosion is the process that wears away the river ... making it heavy and liable to slide. Soil creep is a very slow movement, occurring on very gentle slopes because of the way soil particles ...

Although erosion is a natural process, abusive land-use practices such as deforestation and overgrazing can expedite erosion and strip the land of soils needed for food to grow.

encourage sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere through the formation of humus (which further improves nutrient and water retention); stabilize soil to combat erosion through symbiotic ...

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, ...

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 ...

A wildfire that burned nearly 2,000 hectares of shrubland on the Pichu Pichu volcano in southern Peru has led to severe and lasting soil degradation, according to a new study. Researchers from Miguel ...

While wind erosion—the process by which wind moves soil across a landscape—is natural, Gill said it has been exacerbated by human land use, drought and declining water resources, making the U ...