“Dirt cheap.” It’s an old saying, but hardly accurate. The fact is, the United States loses about $44 billion each year from soil erosion. The challenge is to keep that dirt where it is needed. Soil ...

After a wildfire, Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Teams must rapidly assess the threat from post-fire erosion and runoff due to the removal of vegetation and litter layers. One of the first ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 1 (January to June 2014), pp. 75-82 (8 pages) Abstract: The EPM is a model for qualifying the erosion severity and estimating the total ...

According to a new study, almost 36 billion tons of soil is lost every year due to water, and deforestation and other changes in land use make the problem worse. The study also offers ideas on how ...

Parts of Assam and Meghalaya are among zones in India that are prone to the greatest rainfall-driven soil erosion, said a study that provides a national-scale assessment of rainfall erosivity over ...

Extreme climate conditions and poor land-use management blight the semi-arid steppe regions of Asia, where some of the world’s largest grain exporters are located in the region. Kazakhstan, the ...

Flooding caused by frozen soil on the Palouse in February was one of the largest events in 30 years, Pacific Northwest soil scientists say. Historically high stream flows across the Palouse at that ...

Kannur: The ‘Bamboo Capital’ project initiated by the Kasaragod district administration is seen as a potential model to resist floods and landslides. The model has been successfully implemented in ...