[not an acronym] a common misconception is that SOS means Save Our Ship/Souls (a distress call); the letters don't actually stand for anything.
There is a need of further study in the effects of the reclamation activities at the northern coastal area of Batam related to environmental to avoid any potential negative influence.
Feedbacks are also possible between rates of erosion and the amount of eroded sediment that is already carried by, for example, a river or glacier. While erosion is a natural process, human activities have increased by 10-40 times the rate at which erosion is occurring globally.Excessive (or accelerated) erosion causes both on-site and off-site problems.On-site impacts include decreases in agricultural productivity and (on natural landscapes) ecological collapse, both because of loss of the nutrient-rich upper soil layers. In some cases, the eventual end result is desertification.ind erosion is much more severe in arid areas and during times of drought. For example, in the Great Plains, it is estimated that soil loss due to wind erosion can be as much as 6100 times greater in drought years than in wet years.