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  • Ishita

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    June 15, 2021 at 1:47 pm
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    Soil erosion is very harmful for the environment and mankind. I will cause us several damages including the damage of crops. Soil erosion is a process by which the different agents like air, water, and mass movement cause deterioration in the upper layer of soil, the upper layer is the most fertile top layer of soil.

    For soil erosion the crops , grains can’t be grown properly. These will take us out of food and resources, which will completely destroy us. Let’s learn about the cause and solution of soil erosion

    Cause of soil erosion:-

    Deforestation:- Deforestation is one of the main causes of soil erosion. For industrial or agriculture development many forests or trees are rampantly cut down daily. But if the level of it increases it causes soil erosion. As trees can hold the soil tightly by their roots but if we cut it down the hold will lose.

    Construction and Recreational:- Making buildings and roads also responsible when it comes to soil erosion as they don’t allow for the normal circulation of water. Instead, it runs off to flood nearby lands which increase erosion in these areas. Moreover, motor-based activities like motocross also have the power to disturb ecosystems and erode the soil.

    Logging and Mining:- logging and mining is the method by which trees are removed for some reason.which causes soil erosion. Logging causes the loss of leaf litter, or dead leaves, bark, and branches on the forest floor. Leaf litter plays a major role in guiding the forest soils from erosion.

    Solution of Soil erosion:-

    1) Soil erosion can be prevented by planting trees. Afforestation is the main way to prevent soil erosion.

    2) If we stop till planting it can prevent soil erosion. Seeds are first planted in the ground with the first tilling of soil. Dead plants from the previous crops remain in the ground, their roots can hold soil.

    3) Preventing overgrazing can prevent soil erosion.Frequently move animals from field to field don’t stick to one land.This gives the grass a chance to grow again.

    4) If you have to chop a tree then compensate it by planting more tress, these can stop soil erosion.

  • Anushree

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    June 16, 2021 at 5:49 pm
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    We all are aware of the importance of the fertile top layer of the soil, it helps the trees and plants to grow by providing the required minerals, without this layer it is not possible to ensure life cycle. The process of removing this fertile top layer of soil by either natural or man-made process is known as soil erosion. Soil erosion makes landslides a very common phenomenon which is not at all good for us.

    Soil erosion can happen naturally by extreme natural calamities like floods and cyclones which washes of the top layer, also the same happens by the fast-flowing rivers origination from the mountains. Also, one of the major causes of soil erosion is the human act of deforestation, deforestation is the process of cutting down trees as the trees are cut down the roots of the trees no longer bind the soil particles together and thus results in soil erosion. The process of removing grass and making the land barren also joins hand in soil erosion. Processes such as building concrete roads all over results in uprooting the green grass which also helps in binding the soil together. Once the soil is eroded, we get exposed to the unfertile rocky land.

    Its high time for us to take soil erosion on a serious note and start
    working on with measures to come out of this dangerous problem.

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