In this episode, we learn what erosion is and more specifically – wind erosion. In this episode, we learn what erosion is and more specifically – wind erosion. We then spend time using the ...

More information: Irene Y. Feng et al, Economic costs of wind erosion in the United States, Nature Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01506-4 Provided by University of Texas at El Paso ...

Buffalo bones don’t lie, wind holds no secrets, and both tell a disheartening farming tale of bleeding soil and the alarmingly rapid loss of agricultural lifeblood. Farming history is replete ...

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey says more than 200 thousand square miles of land in the U.S. is more susceptible than ever to soil erosion from wind.

"Soil erosion can take place from water, running across the surface and taking the particles and washing them away," he said. "But another agent of erosion in the desert is actually the wind." ...

Ten years later, travels across North Dakota during the winter of 2024-25 indicated that wind erosion remains the greatest threat to the state’s soil health, Carlos Pires and Brady Goettl, NDSU ...

It is a debt of destruction. The construction of industrial wind turbines affects aquifers, water flow, tile lines, soil erosion, soil compaction, air pressure and current.

Sweeney explained soil erosion has been tracked by researchers over several decades. The '30s Dust Bowl, for instance, contributed to about 5 inches of soil loss, Sweeney said.