Believe it or not, the average home contains several potentially hazardous materials ranging from caustic cleaning agents to toxic automotive products. These materials aren’t usually very harmful as long as they are handled and stored responsibly, but they cannot simply be thrown out with the rest of your trash. Here are a few things you…
Recycling is one of the easiest things someone can do to help the environment, yet many people aren’t sure what to do with their reusable waste. Either they attempt to recycle the wrong materials, or they unthinkingly throw their recyclable materials out with the rest of their trash. Even now that there are more resources…
These days we really have to take a conscious look at how we utilize our natural resources. Water is one of the biggest. In places like California, places suffering from extreme drought, water is getting scarce. But how can we more responsibly consume water on an everyday basis? The obvious answer is to look at…
Water erosion is a common source of soil degradation around the world. It reduces soil productivity over a long period of time, and it will eventually expose largely unproductive subsoil if it is left unchecked. Despite its sometimes destructive nature, water erosion is a natural phenomenon that can literally shape our world in large ways.…
Soil erosion is a natural process in which layers of soil are removed from a landform. The term is often used in agriculture to refer to topsoil that is moved by natural forces or through agricultural activities such as tillage. Natural soil erosion that is caused by wind or water is a long process that…
Water erosion is a natural process in which soil is washed away by running water. It can be relatively minor such as when topsoil is shifted around by rainfall, or it can literally reshape a landscape and cause flooding and landslides. This can cause a lot of problems for agriculture, but there are things that…