If you are landscaping slopes or banks in your yard, consider growing ground cover plants to prevent soil erosion. Heavy rainfall can cause the land to shift and slide without binding the soil, which ...

Soil erosion can have a devastating impact on the environment, especially your beloved garden. Harsh weather conditions like heavy rain that creates runoff, winds that lift soil particles away, and ...

The serial devastation in India’s forests with criminal abandon has laid the seeds of a future disaster that is Orwellian in ...

Home to glaciers, snow leopards, and rich human cultures, Ladakh suffers from a lack of political representation.

A new study published in Nature Climate Change estimates that a 1-meter sea level rise by 2100 would affect over 14 million people and $1 trillion worth of property along the Southeast Atlantic ...

Salamanders like the hellbender only live in streams with very good water quality; soil erosion and siltation, chemical, agricultural and acidic mine runoff, high bacteria counts and even low oxygen ...

Planting on wet soil and over-tilling can cause soil compaction, but so do foot traffic, heavy equipment and a clay soil you’re trying to amend with sand. We discuss the main causes of compacted soil ...

Maharashtra’s several dams have not solved the state’s water crisis while sugarcane cultivation and climate change are ...

The report said that the main reasons for this failure are siltation in rivers and dams resulting in a 4% loss of water ...

Soil microbiology is the scientific discipline that is concerned with the study of all biological aspects of the microorganisms (bacteria, archaea, viruses, fungi, parasites and protozoa) that ...