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 ...

New research shows that plastic pollution in European soils has reached levels that can affect soil health, crop quality and, ...

which can be controlled through efficient soil conservation practices. Land degradation currently affects 1.9 billion hectares globally or about 65 per cent of global soil resources. With 85 per cent, ...

This sensitivity to landscape and soil has enabled the Tanala people to avoid the extensive land degradation common ... for the 'black death' in medieval Europe — lives underground.

A recent study conducted in southwest England has shed light on the connection between large-scale climate drivers and ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

The University of Manchester is tackling this global emergency by establishing novel approaches to repair soil systems, and helping them ... and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity ...

Land degradation affects more than 60% of global soil resources, due mostly to intensive agriculture and deforestation. Degraded land influences the lives of more than 1 billion people who rely on ...

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 ...

While water erosion continues to be the most serious cause of soil degradation globally ... processes involving water movement and storage land degradation - the loss of key land functions ...

This has come at the expense of nature, causing 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss on land. Soil degradation has reduced the productivity of nearly a quarter of the global land surface, ...