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SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL
Contents: March-April 2009, Volume 73, Issue 2
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Environmental pollution we must control
Erosion from deforestated areas, degradation of watersheds and poorly managed agricultural land have reduced dry seasons river flows, exacerbated flooding in wet seasons and diminished ground-water recharge. Scarcity of ...
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Another use for those old tires
The shredded tire strips not only help solve the need to recycle approximately 42 million worn tires taken off the state’s roads each year but provide an ideal, light-weight material to stabilize hillsides prone to seasonal erosion and landslides, officials said.
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The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development
A comprehensive list of internet sites dealing with sustainable development, including organisations, projects and activities, electronic journals, ...
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The Wetlands & Watersheds Article Series
The purpose of the Wetlands & Watersheds Article Series is to expand the Center's current watershed protection guidance, tools, and resources to provide guidance to local communities on how to integrate wetlands into larger watershed protection efforts
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Dreams shattered on the banks of the Hope River
This is PART 3 of a series highlighting the plight of people who have built their homes on DANGEROUS GROUNDS - the banks of the island's rivers and gullies - ignoring the associated risks from flood waters, especially when the country is hit by storms. It will also look at why they were allowed to build in these dangerous areas in the first place, and examine what is happening with our major rivers and what must be done to ensure that they are trained.
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“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Anonymous
Trees play a key role in the environment's natural landscape due to their ability to prevent erosion.
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GPS Guides Shoreline Revetment Project
A Chesapeake Bay shoreline revetment project is just one recent example of using GPS systems for site surveying and machine control.
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Stormwater proposal exposes rifts
A large turnout nearly swamped an Oct. 15 public meeting to discuss a proposed new ordinance intended to check erosion and sedimentation in streams, giving Asheville city staff and the committee charged with drafting the ordinance an idea of just how much interest there is on all sides of this issue.
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Massive plantation programme taken to control soil erosion
The government has taken a massive plantation programme for the plains, char and hill land to control soil erosion, stabilise new chars and improve soil quality, senior officials told BSS on Tuesday.
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Remediation ongoing for fort environmental sites
There are three basic elements in the BEE: seeking out any contaminants of potential ecological concern that may be present on the site; identifying and evaluating environmentally sensitive areas; and determining if there are chemical migration pathways from any possibly contaminated site to environmentally sensitive areas.
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Environmental pollution we must control
Erosion from deforestated areas, degradation of watersheds and poorly managed agricultural land have reduced dry seasons river flows, exacerbated flooding in wet seasons and diminished ground-water recharge. Scarcity of water in the dry season are caused for following reasons- · Upstream withdrawal for consumptive and non-consumptive use · Low rainfall · Gradual siltation in river bed and floodplain · Dry season irrigation. The crisis that we are witnessing today, whether of scarcity and pollution of water and associated phenomenon with water are the degradation of soil, devastation of forests and the rapid diminution of bio-diversity, is essentially a crisis of the human spirit. Thus ...
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'Roosevelt's Tree Army' Roots Out Information
News of economic turmoil bombards us at every turn these days. It may remind some elderly Americans of the fear that struck the nation at the start of the Great Depression. During the 1930s, when 25 percent of American workers were unemployed, the confident, patrician tones of Franklin D. Roosevelt offered reassurance to millions of Americans gathered around their radios for the president's "fireside chats." In one of his early broadcasts, Roosevelt revealed the plan to put thousands of unemployed young men to work as a peacetime army to fight destruction and erosion of the nation's natural resources.
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Massachusetts Contractor Expands Company with Sustainable Erosion Control Services
Since 1998, Engwer has dedicated his career to erosion control and storm-water management. Convinced that there was a better way to stop erosion around construction sites or storm drains than bales of hay and petroleum-based mesh silt fences, which interfere with wildlife, Engwer invented and patented FilterMitts, large biodegradable hemp tubes filled with compost mulch that stop erosion without disturbing animals, insects, or amphibians.
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Ravaged environment keeps Haiti at risk
With the brick-red topsoil quickly eroding and few trees to hold what's left, a heavy downpour can easily trigger a landslide, sending the hills crashing down, washing away homes, uprooting crops.
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