Satellites and Machine Learning Map Soil Erosion Hotspots in a Drought-Hit Indian River Basin
A new RUSLE-GIS study maps soil erosion across India's drought-prone Jonk River Basin with 97 percent accuracy, identifying steep, unprotected ...
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Cloud Computing Maps Soil Erosion Crisis in Ethiopia’s Cereal Heartland
A new satellite-based modeling study shows that widespread soil and water conservation could nearly halve severe soil loss in Ethiopia's ...
Cloud Country’s Fragile Soils: Scientists Decode Why Meghalaya’s Hills Wash Away
A detailed study of twelve benchmark soil series on the Meghalaya Plateau reveals that organic matter, critical shear stress and ...
Grass Roots Fight Erosion in Compacted Soils, and a New Indicator Shows How
A new study shows that grass roots and their biochemical products dramatically reduce erosion in compacted sandy soils, and introduces ...
Ethiopia’s Upper Omo Gibe Basin Is Losing Soil at an Alarming Rate, Satellite Study Finds
A coupled RUSLE-SWPT modeling study shows soil loss in Ethiopia's Upper Omo Gibe Basin rose 44 percent over three decades, ...
Satellite Terrain Data and Machine Learning Reveal Where Soil Quality Fails
Researchers in northern Iran combined satellite-derived terrain attributes with a support vector machine and factor analysis to map soil quality, ...
Vetiver Grass Terraces Slash Fertilizer Runoff in Sri Lanka’s Steep Tea Lands
A field trial on Sri Lanka's steep tea slopes shows that stone terraces combined with vetiver grass cut dissolved nutrient ...
Hidden Erosion: Model Reveals Surface Runoff Is Not the Main Culprit Behind Brazil’s Pampa Gullies
A physics-based erosion model applied to a sandy southern Brazilian watershed reveals that subsurface processes, not surface runoff, drive the ...
Ethiopia’s Billion-Dollar Soil Push Is Failing a Simple Ruler Test
A new field study in Ethiopia's central Gondar highlands finds that widely implemented soil and water conservation structures consistently fall ...
Kabul’s Hidden Crisis: Four Out of Five City Zones Face Three or More Disasters at Once
A new geospatial study finds that about 80 percent of Kabul is exposed to three or more overlapping environmental hazards, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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