As The Guardian explained, the study determined that land degradation is increasing by around 1 million square kilometers (nearly 390,000 square miles) annually. The researchers noted that 15 ...

Forests are losing their carbon-absorbing power. Waiting to act will double forest-related climate costs and damage.

Land degradation affects more than 60% of global soil resources, due mostly to intensive agriculture and deforestation. Degraded land influences the lives of more than 1 billion people who rely on ...

This has come at the expense of nature, causing 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss on land. Soil degradation has reduced the productivity of nearly a quarter of the global land surface, ...

During the Decade, all actors are called upon to raise awareness about desertification, land degradation and drought and their solutions. The Decade campaign is intended to reinforce the ...

Land degradation currently affects 1.9 billion hectares globally or about 65 per cent of global soil resources. With 85 per cent, soil erosion is the main contributor. Approximately 1.5 billion people ...

For those farmers working in drier climates than Britain, climate change is resulting in land degradation – the quality of the land being farmed is decreasing. Land degradation affects almost ...

As part of a comparative experiment on black soil usage, a farmer is hired to plow a field with a mule in the traditional way ...

With agriculture using roughly 70% of global freshwater, land and soil degradation are directly undermining agri-food systems with human-induced degradation contributing to “pushing land ...