Top soil loss threatens food security Intensive agriculture and deforestation are major causes of land degradation involving soil erosion, leaving large areas vulnerable to the loss of fertile top ...

Soils are becoming severely degraded due to a combination ... 50 years from 1959, soil structure and levels of organic matter had degraded while acidity had increased. “Erosion from the wind ...

and deforestation can make soil vulnerable and less stable. Using the right soil from the beginning is the first step for ...

However, modern development of roads, real estate projects, buildings, bridges, and other man-made structures has resulted in ...

This film shows how --as the IPCS article The Fragile Himalayan Ecology puts it-- due to population growth, [and] industrial and commercial activity, the fragile ecology is under a great stress. The ...