Losing six inches of topsoil could cost farmers more than $6,600 in nutrients and organic matter, according to a new analysis ...

Rapid erosion due to human activity, such as grazing livestock and farming, has stripped the Alps of almost all the soil formed since the retreat of the glaciers. This soil developed over millennia as ...

Conservation districts often rent conservation-tillage equipment to farmers. But this may be a first: The Crawford County, Iowa, Soil and Water Conservation District is helping farmers purchase dirt ...

"The soil is being eroded 100 times faster than it's forming," Larsen said. "And that kind of situation can burn right through the soil profile." Larsen and his team traveled to sites across the Upper ...

What happens as a raindrop impacts bare soil has been fairly well-studied, but what happens to raindrops afterward is poorly ...

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