He illustrated his talk by reference to the Ukamba Reserve, where the far-advanced state of soil deterioration is causing grave anxiety. Here, Sir Philip said, is a salvage job which must be put ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Frequent flooding and extreme heat are eroding the quality of soil on farms everywhere. Nutrient-rich topsoil washes away ...

The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) has designed a new approach for building east-west-oriented solar parks which it claims can prevent soil deterioration and offer ...

The addition of zeolite and palm fiber to cement soil improves mechanical properties, offering solutions for ...

Early colonists had to learn the hard way about soil stewardship. The practices associated with keeping livestock also contributed to deterioration of the land.