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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around 40% of all habitable land is used to produce food. This has come at the expense of nature, causing 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss on land. Soil degradation has reduced the ...

Assam leads India in land erosion, driven by the Brahmaputra River's changing course. Efforts to combat the crisis include ...

Over the last forty years, 20 per cent of the Amazon basin has been cleared for a number of reasons, some of which are listed in the diagram below.

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 ...

ULAN BATOR, March 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 840 hectares of forest and about 1.388 million hectares of steppe have been destroyed by wildfire since the beginning of spring in Mongolia, the country's ...

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 ...