Sentences with phrase «soil erosion»

The team's theory explains why decades of measures to reduce soil erosion from contemporary farmland have failed to reduce the amount of mud flowing down the streams.

After examining data from more than 1,400 dams worldwide, it identifies the rate of soil erosion into a reservoir as a leading predictor of carbon dioxide emissions.

For different reasons, sugar subsidies, ethanol subsidies, corn and wheat subsidies, really just about any farm subsidies that aren't based on preventing soil erosion.

These developments also cause soil erosion, and reduce the quality of the food we eat.

There will also be more soil erosion from storms, plus pest and disease outbreaks due to warmer temperatures.

It also helps to reduce soil erosion by protecting the surface from exposure.

The loss of trees also increases soil erosion, meaning banks are more susceptible to collapse and more sediment ends up in the stream.

Such management techniques also play an important role in soil erosion control.

The latter includes good agricultural practices such as soil erosion prevention, minimizing water use and pollution, responsible use of chemicals, and habitat protection.

The contractor told her that she had a «serious» problem with soil erosion and the spa could not be built.

In addition, a number of environmental benefits may be realized through the adoption of no - till practices along with cover crops, primarily in decreased soil erosion.

Finally, trapped carbon in soils is also released through soil erosion and deterioration on industrial farms.

This yields direct benefits like slowing soil erosion, the destruction of natural habitats and loss of biodiversity.

But sometime within the last century, as human and livestock populations expanded, soil erosion began to exceed new soil formation over large areas.

Overall, organic farms tend to have better soil quality and reduce soil erosion compared to their conventional counterparts.

I have spent my career trying to understand and improve the science behind soil erosion, conservation and climate change.

He projects this loss will double to 16 million tons by 2020 if soil erosion is not reduced.

They may conduct soil surveys and develop strategies and plans to end soil erosion.

Plant roots play an essential role in soil development and prevention of soil erosion.

Other certification requirements include a buffer between the coffee and any other crop not grown organically, a plan that demonstrates methods that prevent soil erosion, and other sustainable agricultural criteria.

Conventional farming also causes soil erosion, greenhouse gas emission, increased pest resistance and loss of biodiversity.

The water running off the plateau is increasing soil erosion and so allowing the deserts to spread.

The authors concluded that the organic agriculture system was more effective than the conventional agriculture system in reducing soil erosion and in maintaining soil productivity.

We choose locations that can be restored to forest land to provide solutions to additional problems such as soil erosion and pollutants in water runoff.

Elsewhere in the world (e.g., in North America, Australia, South Africa), however, this type of sedimentation began about the middle of the 19th century, depending on soil erosion stimulated by mechanized (disk) plowing, large - scale deforestation, and engineering activity.

Soil conservationists are responsible for planning and developing various practices for soil erosion control and for moisture conservation.

Taking action against soil erosion over 105 million hectares would save up to USD 62.4 billion in net present value over the next 15 years

«If Jatropha is consuming a lot of water, that's exactly what you want it to do because that prevents further soil erosion,» he says, noting that a «best practices» lifecycle analysis for Jatropha will be available from Yale University in 2010, along with a study of halophytes — plants that can tolerate salt, which have not been used to make biofuel to date.

OVER the past forty years, the world has lost nearly a third of its arable land — because of accelerated soil erosion due to farming and other activities.

China planted 400 - 600 million trees to control severe soil erosion problems.

During the 4th World Soil Day ceremony, the Glinka World Soil Prize 2017 was given to Asociación Argentina de Productores en Siembra Directa (AAPRESID) for their efforts to promote sustainable soil management practices on the ground by combating soil erosion as a direct contribution to food security in South America and the world.

During his search, the Buyer rejected an oceanfront property shown to him by the Buyer's Representative because he was concerned about that property's potential for soil erosion problems.

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With natural soil production rates of centuries to millennia per inch and soil erosion rates of inches per century under plow - based agriculture, it would take just several hundred to a couple of thousand years to plow through the soil in these regions.

Devlin said the extra year will allow the village and the park district to study alternative ways to prevent soil erosion at the lake.

The organically - farmed soil not only had deeper topsoil but also significantly higher organic matter content and suffered less soil erosion than the conventionally farmed soil.

These management techniques are also of special relevance on porous ferralitic soils of the tropics and subtropics which are highly susceptible to soil erosion due to frequent heavy rainfall.

Even human life and property are jeopardized when soil erosion causes mud - and landslides.

The accelerating soil erosion over the last century can be seen in the dust bowls that form as vegetation is destroyed and wind erosion soars out of control.

The retirement of 14 million hectares under the CRP, together with the use of conservation practices on 37 percent of all cropland, reduced U.S. soil erosion from 3.1 billion tons to 1.9 billion tons during the 15 years between 1982 and 1997.

The Supreme Court of Rhode Island has ruled that an extreme soil erosion problem on waterfront property could require disclosure under the state's property condition disclosure law.

At the same time, North Korea, largely deforested and suffering from flood - induced soil erosion and land degradation, has watched its yearly grain harvest fall from a peak of almost 6 million tons during the 1980s to scarcely 3 million tons per year today.

A U.N. team visiting in 2002 found that crop production there «is declining and could cease altogether over large tracts of country if steps are not taken to reverse soil erosion, degradation, and the decline in soil fertility.»

Returning crop land to pasture and growing more multi-year forage crops would reduce soil erosion risks and the need for applied fertility.

In South America, in what is now Peru, the subjects of the Incan Empire had developed terrace cultivation, by which they obtained better harvests and also avoided soil erosion.

Trees help clean the air, provide much needed oxygen, and prevent soil erosion among a host of other super helpful things.

It resulted in heavy soil erosion, desertification, and climate change.