Despite repeated warnings from experts, soil continues to erode at an alarming pace. Soil health advocates say it's past time ...

The wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in January incinerated more than 16,000 structures and unleashed tons of toxic material into the air, water and soil. Many Pacific Palisades and Altadena ...

The study focused on intact residential parcels within and near the burn zones, where samples were taken in an effort to evaluate soil conditions following the fires. In the Palisades area ...

Also see: Altadena fire zones grow under new state maps, but officials say won’t impede permitting in rebuild The previous maps only designated land in very-high fire hazard zones. Residents ...

Looking at various crop production areas, the following are currently affected by drought: While the drought monitor looks longer term, NASA’s root zone soil moisture map shows just how dry it ...

The fertile soils of America’s vast prairies made the heartland ideal for ... and is a leading cause of an oxygen-starved dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico that kills marine plant and animal ...

These prairie plants help improve the soil while also protecting his more ... but treating water that interacts with the root zone below the prairie strip,” Helmers said. During a big rain ...

Thus, intensive agricultural land use may alter soil function and solute transport to streams compared to critical zones hosting tallgrass prairie vegetation ... and Paul Hunt for assistance ...

As the soil warms and ... update of the zones. Readers can simply type in their address to find their zone and toggle to check whether it changed from the prior USDA map, last updated a decade ...

With the unseasonal warmth and dryness, Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie is getting questions from farmers wondering about spring strip-tilling or zone building. One question came in from ...

FIGURE 1. Map of the Prairie Pothole Region in North America with soil zones in Canada. Drained wetlands that were surveyed for soil carbon estimates are indicated by circles. The wetland drainage ...

The USDA Hardiness Zone Map, the arbiter of cold hardiness for ... such as positioning against a south-facing wall, mulching the soil or even wrapping them with breathable frost fabric in winter.