and points to the importance of dust mitigation efforts. While wind erosion — the process by which wind moves soil across a landscape — is natural, Gill said it has been exacerbated by human ...

In 1933 Bennett was made director of the newly formed Soil Erosion Service, which worked to combat erosion caused by dust storms by reforming farming methods. “...Americans have been the ...

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Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

A gust of wind sweeps over bare soil, kicking up enough dirt and dust ... concluded that the economic damaged caused by wind erosion and dust is four times higher than previously calculated ...

Study: Redistributing soil can restore nutrients, improve water retention, and significantly boost crop yields on eroded ...

soil structure and levels of organic matter had degraded while acidity had increased. “Erosion from the wind is not as bad as it used to be in the dust bowl era, but in the past 20 years the ...

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

and points to the importance of dust mitigation efforts. While wind erosion—the process by which wind moves soil across a landscape—is natural, Gill said it has been exacerbated by human land ...

A chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 70 in northwest Kansas Friday resulted in eight deaths as more than 70 vehicles were ...

A new study in the journal Nature Sustainability estimates that blowing dust and wind erosion cost approximately $154 billion per year across the United States. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!