“Dirt cheap.” It’s an old saying, but hardly accurate. The fact is, the United States loses about $44 billion each year from soil erosion. The challenge is to keep that dirt where it is needed. Soil ...

Ephemeral gullies are common features on agricultural landscapes. Concentrated water flows can erode cropland soils and carve out these small drainage ditches, which then transport field runoff laden ...

After a wildfire, Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Teams must rapidly assess the threat from post-fire erosion and runoff due to the removal of vegetation and litter layers. One of the first ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 2 (July to December, 2010), pp. 81-104 (24 pages) Abstract: This paper investigates a comparative analysis of erosion modeling techniques ...

Extreme climate conditions and poor land-use management blight the semi-arid steppe regions of Asia, where some of the world’s largest grain exporters are located in the region. Kazakhstan, the ...

Mangrove vegetation, which grows naturally in subtropical shorelines, provides a wide range of ecosystem functions such as reducing coastal erosion, promoting biodiversity, and removing nitrogen, ...