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 ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel ... When the glacier begins to melt, it deposits its cargo of soil and rock, transporting the rocky debris toward the sea. Every year, rivers deposit millions ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

or subsurface drainage and the proximity to bodies of water. Sediment bound P loss through erosion: Phosphorous often attaches to the surface of soil or organic matter particles. Erosion of ...

While retaining walls can serve an aesthetic purpose, they primarily function as a barrier to hold back soil and prevent erosion ... In addition to subsurface drainage, weep holes can be ...

O'ahu's sandy beaches are at risk. New research has determined that 81% of O'ahu's coastline could experience erosion by 2100, with 40% of this loss happening by 2030. Importantly, these forecasts of ...

The Lafayette Consolidated Government has begun repair projects on the East Verot School Road Bridge and the Beau Pre Road ...

The once-common beach morning glory vines (Ipomoea pes-caprae) have slowly been disappearing from Cox’s Bazar beach in ...

The GR also included statistics on the soil erosion losses. Soil erosion renders the land useless for agriculture purposes, at least in the year it happens, say farmers who see it as a worse loss ...

PETALING JAYA: Human activity, the weather and erosion of the embankment ... related to geology and subsurface structures will be prepared by the Masjid India Soil Structure Task Force, led ...