The loss of vegetative cover caused by logging — whether clear-cutting, thinning, or even prescribed burns — exposes soil to the drying effects of sunlight and wind, and this contributes to erosion, ...

How sensitively does organic carbon stored in soils react to changes in temperature and humidity? This question is central to ...

Reding provides technical assistance to the SWCD along with the Pelican River Watershed District and the Cormorant Lakes ...

Working close to the Capitol Lake shoreline in Olympia Wa. On May 8, 2025 a project team from the Department of Enterprise ...

The Department of Enterprise Services and its estuary restoration project team began conducting soil sampling on and around ...

Particles of both minerals and organic matter track the retreat of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which melted about 20,000 years ...

The increasing frequency of once-in-a-decade agricultural and ecological drought has underscored the urgency of studying hydrological changes. A research team has analyzed the estimated changes in ...

The Ogallala Aquifer, a water source under farmland, cities and small towns from South Dakota to Texas, is in crisis.

Columnist Anne Millbrooke writes that troubled waters in Montana are due to pollution, sediment and mismanagement, but that ...

As the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion flounders amid politics, some scientists say that doubts about its effectiveness can ...

Conservation buffers and strips. What do they all do? How do they protect surface water and can they work together with ...

The Detroit River is still home to 3.5 million cubic yards of toxic sediment remaining from the peak industrial era decades ago, when it was a dumping ground. Among the contaminants are high levels of ...