Title:
Midwestern US has lost 57.6 trillion metric tons of soil due to agricultural practices, study finds
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Phys.org, 16 March 2022
From the article:
A new study in the journal Earth's Future led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst shows that, since Euro-American settlement approximately 160 years ago, agricultural fields in the Midwestern U.S. have lost, on average, two millimeters of soil per year.