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, ...

Water erosion is the most widespread form of soil degradation globally (Figure ... processes involving water movement and storage land degradation - the loss of key land functions (e.g., water ...

Soil erosion is a part of soil degradation. It's when the topsoil and nutrients are lost either naturally, such as via wind erosion, or due to human actions, such as poor land management. There are ...

of agricultural land. The mechanical agitation of soil, called tillage erosion and a common practice in agriculture, can also initiate soil degradation. Other forms of erosion include wind erosion ...

Soil fertility is the ability of soil to ... while minimizing the mining of soil nutrient reserves and the degradation of the physical and chemical properties of soil that can lead to land degradation ...

Studies have revealed that water and wind erosion, depletion of soil fertility, deforestation, unsustainable livestock ...

“For years, we have seen how soil erosion strips our farmlands of their fertility, leaving them vulnerable to reduced yields,” he said. “Our focus now is on implementing sustainable land ...

Published in the Journal of Soils and Sediments, the study presents compelling evidence that catastrophic wildfires and soil erosion—driven ... leading to severe soil degradation on hillslopes ...

Can nature restoration and economic productivity go hand in hand? A new study finds that the EU's ambitious Nature ...

With agriculture using roughly 70% of global freshwater, land and soil degradation are directly undermining agri-food systems with human-induced degradation contributing to “pushing land ...