Wild hog rooting starts as feeding, then reshapes water, plants and costs, turning soil into a system under constant daily ...

Iodine plays a critical role in natural and contaminated environments, with its dynamic behaviour in soils and sediments governed by a range of biogeochemical processes. In these matrices, iodine ...

Cover crops also have become more common. Planted between harvests, these crops keep living roots in the ground for more months of the year, stabilizing soil and reducing erosion. Not harvested, they ...

Fertile sediment bottled up behind old mill dams in Pennsylvania is a relentless source of nutrient and sediment pollution in local waterways that flow toward the Chesapeake Bay. But it could become a ...

Slowly but surely, the world’s reservoirs are getting gunked up with sediment. In an unblocked river, the flowing water carries bits of sediment along—picked up from river banks or swept into the ...

Silt-laden water spills over the top of Matilija Dam, operated by the Casitas Municipal Water District, near Ventura, California. Its reservoir is almost full of sediment, and a new plan for removing ...