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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

USUALLY the soil is regarded as something particularly stable, but this stability is almost wholly due to its normal covering of vegetation. There is always a danger that if the cover of ...

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 ...

Frozen soil, high stream flows and melting snow near Pullman, Wash., and Moscow, Idaho, in February all combined into making the perfect conditions for one of the largest extreme runoff and ...