Building a growing garden can be a rewarding and satisfying experience, but its challenges include soil erosion. This natural process, which strips the top fertile layer away, can leave gardens ...

Black soil covering white snow in ditches during the winter and clouds of dirt swirling across fields, farms and roads are stark evidence that erosion is a major threat to soil health. Despite a “Wake ...

In new research published today in the European Geosciences Union journal Biogeosciences, two scientists address the soil organic carbon erosion paradox Early studies assumed that a substantial ...

Weather in Missouri can be all over the board with grand temperature swings and wild changes in precipitation. But our weather also can also be very stagnant for long periods of time. Aside from last ...

With soils rich for cultivation, most land in the Midwestern United States has been converted from tallgrass prairie to agricultural fields. Less than 0.1 percent of the original prairie remains. This ...

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 10 ...

Flooding caused by frozen soil on the Palouse in February was one of the largest events in 30 years, Pacific Northwest soil scientists say. Historically high stream flows across the Palouse at that ...

Engineers studying how the Kimball Street dam’s removal could affect Elgin’s water supply found lower Fox River water levels shouldn’t impact the intake system unless there’s extreme erosion. But it’s ...