“Dirt cheap.” It’s an old saying, but hardly accurate. The fact is, the United States loses about $44 billion each year from soil erosion. The challenge is to keep that dirt where it is needed. Soil ...

A new model is allowing researchers to predict coastline erosion due to rising sea levels much more accurately. It would appear that the effects of coastline erosion as a result of rising sea-level ...

Extreme climate conditions and poor land-use management blight the semi-arid steppe regions of Asia, where some of the world’s largest grain exporters are located in the region. Kazakhstan, the ...

Scientists working on new ways to battle the erosion that threatens Louisiana's coastline have a dramatic new tool: a massive replica of the lower Mississippi River. The Louisiana State University's ...

Ephemeral gullies are common features on agricultural landscapes. Concentrated water flows can erode cropland soils and carve out these small drainage ditches, which then transport field runoff laden ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2 (July to December, 2010), pp. 81-104 (24 pages) Abstract: This paper investigates a comparative analysis of erosion modeling techniques ...

F. Li, P.H.A.J.M van Gelder, D.P. Callaghan, R.B. Jongejan, C. den Heijer and R. Ranasinghe Journal of Coastal Research Special Issue 65: Proceedings of the 12th INTERNATIONAL COASTAL SYMPOSIUM ICS ...

WASHINGTON - Once a raging forest fire is quelled, the next worry is erosion of the landscape. With vegetation destroyed, rain easily washes away the soil, causing large flows of debris and landslides ...