Sentence examples for soil erodes from inspiring English sources

When the forest is cut away and replaced by farms or ranches, the fragile Amazon soil erodes and eventually becomes exhausted.

As soil erodes and crop yields fall in countries like Mongolia, Lesotho and Haiti, their dependence on imported grain is soaring.

As tree cover vanishes, the land dries out and the soil erodes and becomes barren — a major reason for Ethiopia's periodic famines.

Worst of all, the physical structure changes if the top soil erodes, making it harder for the land to retain water or fertiliser.

He believes that when smallpox and other Western diseases decimated the local population, there weren't enough people left to keep up the terraces: "If you don't maintain it, and the wall breaches, all the soil erodes away".

The very few conditions where infective AMF are low in density and diversity is when the soil erodes, is disturbed, and is devoid of vegetation cover (Asmelash et al. 2016).

The "desert" had made its entrance, and the more the soil eroded, the more the sand underneath was exposed.

Over 300 pages he provides a comprehensive yet very approachable litany of the essential services nature provides for us, beginning at the bottom with the benefits of soil (eroded over much of the world) and of photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy.

Soil eroded from the upper slope will not be deposited in the lower part.

Within a month of the blaze, a pulse of mercury entered the lake via soil eroded from the burned hectares.

The total amount of soil eroded annually increased from 284.56×104 tonnes (t) to 305.51×104 t.