"Soil Erosion and Conservation" provides a comprehensive treatment of the processes of soil erosion, the methods that can be used for their control, and the issues involved in designing and ...

As Northeast Colorado enters the second consecutive year of drought, the threat of soil erosion caused by wind is increased. Drought affects soil moisture, plant growth and the amount of crop residue ...

Veteran farmer Don Guinnip knows the value of conservation. Farming in the Wabash Valley near Marshall, Ill., the sixth-generation corn and soybean producer is accustomed to growing crops in what he ...

Do you know what “menace” Nebraska farmers are still battling? Soil erosion. Even after widespread adoption of no-till and other modern farming methods, soil erosion is still a big problem in many ...

Many McHenry County property owners have lost big chunks of land to stream-bank erosion, and the resulting silt is clogging waterways and harming aquatic life. But the McHenry County Soil and Water ...

The value of soil is something that is taken for granted. Soil is the foundation for all living things and without it, life on earth is not sustainable. Soil is a complex mixture of rock, organic ...

In 1938 Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. With just 7% of Tajikistan's land suitable for ...

The forestry sector has become a driving force in Chile’s national economy, with exports increasing from approximately US $4 million in 1970 to US $5.9 billion in 2011. However, the intensification of ...

Quantitative assessment of soil loss in Ambika watershed, Gujarat, India was done using universal soil loss equation (USLE) and geographic information system (GIS) to analyse spatial distribution of ...