New research reveals how rock strength plays a crucial role in erosion, shaping landscapes over millions of years.
Hardscaping does more than shape your space — it impacts soil health, water flow and the surrounding ecosystem.
A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...
A new analysis from the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification reveals over three-quarters of the land on Earth has experienced ... have transformed from humid landscapes to drylands.
The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball, about ...
The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...
Additionally, the processes of erosion and deposition act to redistribute soil carbon according to the topography of the landscape ... larger proportion of the earth's surface.