"This soil type often washes away more easily than others from rain and water, so it's best to plant ground covering perennials in spots where the soil is exposed to avoid erosion." Identifying ...

Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the ... The distance that eroded sediments travel is a function of the type of erosion, the degree of disturbance experienced by the 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 ...

When designing a landscape, few elements are as versatile and visually striking as grasses. Grasses for landscaping add ...

Intercropping creates a living web of soil-building and nutrient-exchange underground. When legumes fix nitrogen, root ...

Not all farmlands are created equal — some are flat, some are on a moderate slope and some are hilly. On hilly agricultural ...

When you think of improving the soil, you may imagine planting cover crops or utilizing minimal tillage systems that allow ...

A study led by Prof. Amos Frumkin from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity's most ...

Conservationists in the Peak District are working with nature to tackle soil erosion on an ancient hillfort site on Mam Tor. Rangers working for the National Trust have installed special hessian ...

Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil ...

Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons is an effective way to prevent farmland from losing soil carbon from erosion, ...

While cover crops modestly increase soil carbon, the reduction in erosion is a separate benefit. Globally, cover crops could reduce soil carbon erosion by 25%, with a 20% reduction in the central U.S.