Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to roll back its plan to remove a 9-inch soil layer from Shivaji Park to address the dust menace. “In the latest meeting held with the ...

Soils are becoming severely degraded due to a combination of intensive farming practices and natural processes. As the layer of fertile topsoil thins, it gets increasingly difficult to grow crops ...

“Running that horizontal tillage tool created a soil density layer beneath the surface,” he says. In scientific terms, the bulk density of the tilled soil (the dry weight of soil divided by ...

Overburden Pressure: The pressure exerted by the weight of overlying soil layers on a given soil layer. Shear Strength: The maximum resistance of a material to shear stress, which is critical in ...

There are three main British soils; podzol, brown earth and gley. Podzols are easily recognisable by their distinct layers or horizons. A grey or light-coloured 'E' horizon is the result of severe ...

The proposal to remove an average of 9 inches layer of soil from Shivaji Park comes at a time when Mumbai is grappling with a worsening air quality index and the BMC’s special drive to control ...

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said that the P91.4-million dike collapsed in Barangay Cand ...