Sentences with phrase «eroded soil from»

As a result, you probably collected more eroded soil from rain falling on the bare soil.

We are comparing apples and oranges here — and cotton pesticides, eroded soil from cotton fields, emissions from logging trucks, oil spills, hazardous wastes from refineries and petrochemical and plastics plants.

Not exact matches

Coffee farms of various sizes ring the reserve, acting as a buffer for the natural forest and preventing the land from being converted to row - crop agriculture or ranches, which quickly degrade and erode the thin tropical forest soil.

When the river overflows its banks, it carries the soils from the floodplain and eroded upland agricultural soils down - stream creating sand dunes, mud flats, and deltas.»

That's because the plants are especially tolerant to copper that has eroded into soils from the mother lodes.

Between 16,000 and 10,000 years ago, for instance, geologic evidence suggests that the region became seismically active after the Mississippi River eroded too much soil from the ground above.

Our soil is over-worked, eroded, contaminated, and ineffectively fertilized, so the soil itself suffers from severe mineral deficiencies.

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.

These trends include — in addition to falling water tables — eroding soils and rising temperatures from increasing greenhouse gas emissions.