Description: Soil erosion is a major global environmental problem. The Soil Erosion Site gives reliable and accessible information on erosion's causes, impacts, and control
Unsustainable soil erosion — the loss of fertile topsoil by by water, wind, or tillage — is a global problem, the importance of which is slowly becoming more widely appreciated. High rates of soil loss are always a result of mankind's unwise actions, such as overgrazing or unsuitable cultivation practices.
"Soil erosion by water, wind and tillage affects both agriculture and the natural environment. Soil loss, and its associated impacts, is one of the most important (yet probably the least well-known) of today's environmental problems."
BBC 2000 ; The Guardian 2004 ; SciDevNet 2015 ; Soil-Net 2015 ; WWF 2017