Sentence examples for lost soil from inspiring English sources

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

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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).

But we are still losing soil faster than nature can replace it in many places on the planet, and losing its ability to function biologically and physically.

But a cruel, unspoken irony also attends the release of this UN report: as we step up the global fight against HIV, we are losing ground on home soil.

According to some scientists, one third of the world's arable land has been lost to soil erosion or pollution in the past 40 years.

In soil with low organic matter content and pH value, metals are easily lost with soil erosion, Only small amounts of these metals are absorbed by plants and do harm and so there is less danger to local residents.