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Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports that rising sea levels and erosion are threatening lives ...
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Soil erosion inflates food prices, in particular that of paddy rice, but also wheat and other staple foods. More water is withdrawn for agriculture, with an average 1.6% increase worldwide.
Midwest soil is eroding at an alarming rate according to new, first-of-its-kind research. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is ...
More than 57 billion tons of soil have eroded in the U.S. Midwest. The level of erosion, possibly underestimated by the USDA, may have become unsustainable ...
Nagpur: Over 8,000 hectares of soil in fields belonging to more than 23,000 farmers was washed away due to excessive rains between June and September .
The U.S. Geological Survey is using unmanned aerial equipment with drone-operational assistance provided by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to chart dune erosion and beach loss at Town ...
Raindrops Go Ballistic In Research On Soil Erosion. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 01 / 070118094045.htm. Arizona State University.
A recent assessment has found that water erodes 970 million tonnes of soil every year in the EU. This would mean a one metre-depth loss of soil from an area corresponding to the size of the city ...
Since the early 1960s – when Cs-137 was released into the atmosphere from nuclear weapons tests and deposited on the Earth’s surface – until the time of sampling in 2018, more than 60 per cent – or 12 ...
Soil erosion is the main contributor to land degradation globally, leading to an annual loss of 75 billion tonnes of fertile soil, with an economic cost of about US $126 billion per year. The IAEA, in ...