On 21 June 2018, the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission published a new edition of the World Atlas of Desertification, offering a tool for decision makers to improve local responses to ...

ROME, Dec 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 ...

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, ...

Central Asian states are experiencing a severe soil degradation crisis, with millions of acres of arable land lost each year. The crisis is driven by climate change, unsustainable agricultural ...

Soil degradation effects in Boulder County have become more entrenched, causing the loss of more than a foot of topsoil in one agricultural field, according to new research by a professor at the ...

Recent research has changed our understanding of the nature of environmental hazards, and they are now increasingly understood as 'culturally-mediated' effects of the relationship between society and ...

NAIROBI/DURBAN, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is ...

Scientists from Nagaland University, the only Central varsity in the state, were part of a multi-institutional research team ...

The World Desertification Atlas by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre provides the first comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of land degradation at a global level and highlights the ...

NAIROBI/DURBAN, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is ...