Dr. Hugh Hammond Bennett (left) first Chief of the Soil Conservation Service and Mr. Roach Stewart (Duke Power Co.) In the early years of the 1930s, the extent of the damage inflicted on the ...

Desoto County environmental agencies and various volunteer organizations came together on Courthouse Square Saturday for an ...

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 ...

Within the realm of soil conservation policy within the United States, soil erosion has commonly been described in relation to soil-specific tolerance levels (commonly called t-factors ...

which can be controlled through efficient soil conservation practices. Land degradation currently affects 1.9 billion hectares globally or about 65 per cent of global soil resources. With 85 per cent, ...

WASHINGTON— A new study published today by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are ...

The former group of techniques is used to assess the magnitude of soil erosion and the impact of soil conservation measures on soil erosion, while the latter helps identify sediment sources and ...