Sentence examples for losing soil from inspiring English sources

Countries are losing soil at different rates.

However, the soil erosion levels of woodland, arable land and meadow were relatively higher which implied these three land types were liable to losing soil.

"And that kind of loss occurs year after year by wind and rain around the world". The United States is losing soil 10 times faster -- and China and India are losing soil 30 to 40 times faster -- than the natural replenishment rate.

The US, which just avoided turning the Great Plains into a dust bowl in the 1930s, is still losing soil 18 times more rapidly than it is forming it.

Decreasing of the Aral Sea water levels has caused losing soil degradation, water salinity, and local climate change (Elpiner 1999).

This might create a calibrated soil quality indicator that only predicts whether soil is accumulating or losing soil C. Soil MBC/SOC had a very strong positive correlation with, SOC, TKN, MBC and MBC/SOC (Tables 4, 5).

The other scenarios, either lacking fertilizer or cover crops, lost soil carbon.

When you do that you lose infiltration and the retention of rainfall, you lose soil fertility, you lose soil moisture, you lose the canopy, and micro-climates below the canopy – it's devastating.

Tropical sites in Region 1 (Bahia state) showed no net change (−0.11 Mg ha−1 yr−1, P = 0.1874, whereas tropical and subtropical sites in Region 2 (Espirito Santo state) lost soil carbon stocks (−0.87 Mg ha−1 yr−1, P < 0.0001), and subtropical sites in Region 3 (São Paulo state) also remained the same (0.06 Mg ha−1 yr−1, P = 0.3969).

On average, conventional farms lost soil about 90 times faster than new soil is produced.

To lose soil is to lose food and life.