topsoil

According to LVV's head of environment Tommi Muilu, work at the sites included the removal of trees and topsoil, the construction of site roads and storage areas, and changes to ditches.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

One method -- termed "moving mountains" -- was described in 2015 by China's top industry and technology regulator as "first cutting down trees, then clearing weeds and finally stripping away the topsoil, causing irreparable damage".

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

In some cases, several feet of topsoil made potentially toxic by the fires must be scraped up and trucked away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

The dung beetle, which disperses seeds as it rolls its dung balls, fertilizing topsoil and enhancing biodiversity and engineering its environment, normally orients itself using the Milky Way and the moon.

From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2025

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 million tons of American topsoil had become airborne in that single storm.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

France's cadmium rate in earth of 0.25 mg/kg is only slightly higher than the EU average of 0.20, according to a 2024 study of topsoils in the bloc.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Healthy topsoils are also seriously diminished, as are agricultural lands, converted to other uses, and global food supplies, which are ever more expensive.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2010

Other sites may have gooey, very fine clay topsoils, almost inevitably with gooey, very fine clay subsoils as well.

From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon