With increasing temperatures, microscopic fish remains (called ichthyoliths) undergo significant color alterations and therefore may be useful in determining the paleotemperature histories of ...

Over the last three decades, California has seen increasing erosion after major wildfires — a phenomenon that not only endangers water resources and ecosystems, but is also likely to worsen with ...

Writing of inland birds in America, Beecher (1942,) states `The animal population can be no more stable than the plant community in which it occurs'. This statement has even closer significance when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Understanding erosion is quite important in quantifying the loss ...

Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Soil erosion, the most common type of land degradation, ...

In Southwest Michigan along the Lake Michigan shoreline, full- and part-time residents are losing more of their backyards every year — and the changing climate and weather patterns are making the ...