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 ...

Ten years later, travels across North Dakota during the winter of 2024-25 indicated that wind erosion remains the greatest threat to the state’s soil health, Carlos Pires and Brady Goettl, NDSU ...

Tilling farmland is a key contributor to erosion and has played a role in the loss of billions of tons of soil in the U.S. Midwest, a new study finds. Jaren Kane/Getty Images Plus ...

Gardeners pay a lot of attention to their plants, but are you paying enough attention to the soil they’re in? Soil erosion ...

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts found that the rate of soil erosion in the Midwestern US is 10 to 1,000 times greater than it was before modern agriculture practices reigned supreme ...

Feb. 22—GRAND FORKS — Lack of snow and abundant wind have combined to cause extensive soil erosion this winter in parts of the Red River Valley that could have been prevented, an area ...

The rate of soil erosion in the midwestern United States is 10 to 1,000 times faster than pre-agricultural rates, according to a new study from University of Massachusetts researchers.

Producers should figure out how to reduce soil erosion now before people who don’t farm do it for them. Ann Bailey lives on a farmstead near Larimore, North Dakota, that has been in her family ...

The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years, and the rate of erosion, even following the U.S. Department of Agriculture's ...

Over time, the forest has naturally reclaimed and stabilized the soil in some areas. The couple has also intervened to help the process, securing fallen tree trunks perpendicular to steep slopes ...

Drought, irregular rainfall, deforestation, and the legacy of unsustainable human activities have left vast areas across the ...