An age-old agricultural method is helping to combat soil degradation and protect a source of food and income for more than 75% of the population in Madagascar. Through a study using isotopic ...

Soil erosion is widely known for degrading land and reducing agricultural productivity. But new research shows it may also ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Farmer El Haj Abdeslam and his three helpers spent years ...

(Mass Appeal) – April 22 is Earth Day, and we thought it would be fun to experiment with erosion using three basic materials: plastic bottles, soil, and water. Dr. Yadilette Rivera-Colón, Board Chair ...

Raindrops can wreak havoc on Earth. They just do it on a microscopic scale. At that scale, raindrops hitting bare ground have nearly the force of a hammer hitting a mound of dirt. What happens when ...

Malawi’s increasingly unpredictable rainfall and higher than usual temperatures are causing problems for smallholder farmers. Soil erosion has increased, causing soil fertility and water availability ...

A single drop is harmless, but when billions of raindrops fall from a cloudburst onto bare soil they strike like billions of tiny hammers, dislodging tons of soil per acre which is carried away by ...

Coral reefs, like tree rings, are natural archives of climate change. But oceanic corals also provide a faithful account of how people make use of land through history, says Stanford University ...