While water erosion continues to be the most serious cause of soil degradation globally, innovative strategies that remediate important soil functions can restore the productivity of eroded soils.

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 ...

Photograph by Shutterstock Soil degradation, where soil loses the physical ... and captures the carbon dioxide that causes climate change. Soil is the largest carbon sink after the ocean and ...

The world's growing population is putting pressure on its arable land, and scientists warn 90 per cent of all soil could be ...

Depleted soil leads to reduced yields, forcing farmers to rely on fertilizers that raise food production costs, consumer prices.

These particles are ubiquitous in soil and, due to their high surface area, are highly reactive. conservation agriculture: An approach to farming which minimizes degradation and/or loss of natural ...

The causes of soil degradation are not new, with many linked to global warming. A report published by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in 2022 also identified several man-made factors ...

Agriculture uses roughly 70% of global freshwater, land and soil degradation are directly undermining agri-food systems with human-induced degradation The first International Soil and Water Forum ...

This effort forms a critical part of sustainable soil management efforts, which aim to strengthen soil health and combat soil degradation ... “All of that causes not only the addition of ...