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 ...

regional and global aridity trends and future projections’, which highlights the risks posed by land degradation and desertification to human and natural ecosystems.

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, ...

The Presidency emphasized that the new law aligns with South Africa’s strategic objectives for managing natural resources ...

As Mongolia's mining sector drives unprecedented economic growth, the nation grapples with preserving its ancient pastoral ...

Land systems drive climate change through deforestation and the conversion of ecosystems, land degradation, and the production and consumption of food. Pressures on land will only increase unless we ...

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.

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 ...

The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, has reiterated his commitment to ensure that illegal mining and land degradation are tackled without fear or favour in all the af ...

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 ...