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 ...

Ann Bailey discusses the problem of soil erosion and why farmers should consider ways to stop erosion now instead of being forced to do it by people without farming backgrounds. Buried machinery ...

Contour planting helps reduce soil erosion and water runoff.When crops are planted down a slope, water flows quickly through the rows, especially during heavy rain.Instead of percolating into the ...

Flooding caused by frozen soil on the Palouse in February was one of the largest events in 30 years, Pacific Northwest soil scientists say. Historically high stream flows across the […] ...

Soil piping: A subsurface erosion process where concentrated water flow creates tunnel‐like conduits in the soil, potentially leading to surface collapse and altered hydrological dynamics.

To maintain soil that produces successful crops, it helps to give it a rest now and then.That's what cover crops are all about. They prevent erosion, retain moisture, suppress weeds, reduce ...

"The big flood gave us an opportunity to really understand how these big events reshape landscapes,” said IU earth scientist Doug Edmonds, “because an interesting thing that we want to understand is ...