Want to see erosion in action? This experiment uses soil, mulch, and grass to effectively demonstrate the need for erosion control. Follow along and discover how to get started! What is erosion ...

Soil erosion is a major challenge in agricultural production. It affects soil quality and carries nutrient sediments that pollute waterways. While soil erosion is a naturally occurring process, ...

Jo Handelsman, Obama’s former science advisor, explains why more farms are experiencing erosion, and how it reduces crop yields. The following is an excerpt from A World Without Soil: The Past, ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! This episode is about erosion and weathering. We will use sand and rocks to simulate what happens after a river flood. Water is powerful, it can grind down ...

This sunken 100-foot walkway in Indiana Dunes National Park was built to help people with disabilities enjoy the lakeside view. Now, due to erosion, visitors can no longer use it. Credit: Tyler Lake, ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and then wash the remains into the sea. The processes are definitively independent, but not ...

After Hurricane Isabel in 2003, Great Falls on the Potomac River was overwhelmed by muddy floodwater carrying soil washed from historic upland farms. Precise measurement of soil erosion over large ...

Understanding soil erosion by water is essential for a range of research areas but the predictive skill of prognostic models has been repeatedly questioned because of scale limitations of empirical ...

Soil degradation is gradually becoming a major challenge in the world, and one of the biggest drivers of it is the erosion of topsoil. Soil degradation might just be coming to a tipping point if ...

Soil erosion reduces the productivity of ecosystems, it changes nutrient cycles and it thus directly impacts climate and society. An international team of researchers, recorded temporal changes of ...

For the first time, scientists have observed how the tiny fungi that live on plant roots begin to break down rocks. The researchers watched fungi disrupt the crystal structure of a common mineral in ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Farmer El Haj Abdeslam and his three helpers spent years ...