Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

With soils rich for cultivation, most land in the Midwestern United States has been converted from tallgrass prairie to agricultural fields. Less than 0.1 percent of the original prairie remains. This ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the living world, from microbes to ecosystems. Soil isn't the only thing that we are losing from erosion. A new study ...

In Southwest Michigan along the Lake Michigan shoreline, full- and part-time residents are losing more of their backyards every year — and the changing climate and weather patterns are making the ...

After rejection from other coastal cities, the bold-faced names of Broad Beach are looking to Ventura County to replace their eroding beachfront as environmentalists continue their outcry. By Gary ...