The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years, and the rate of erosion, even following the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s guidelines, is still 25 times higher than the rate at which topsoil forms.
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That’s No Meteor: NASA Satellite’s Elusive Green Lasers Spotted at Work
The green light streaking across the cloudy sky was something that Daichi Fujii had never seen before.
U.S. Energy Storage Made Record Gains Last Year
Last year saw a record buildout of energy storage in the U.S., with battery and thermal storage growing by 73 percent, a new report finds.
East Coast Landslide Impacts From Puerto Rico to Vermont and in Between
In the U.S., we may often think of landslides as primarily a West Coast problem, mostly plaguing the mountainous terrain of California, Oregon, and Washington.
What’s Driving Re-Burns Across California and the West?
Seasonal temperature, moisture loss from plants and wind speed are what primarily drive fires that sweep across the same landscape multiple times, a new study reveals.
A Warm February Wrapped up a Warm Winter for U.S.
February continued the unusually mild start to 2023, with much of the eastern U.S. seeing record or near-record warm temperatures.