Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year. Could efforts to restore and reforest this arid terrain bear fruit?

Notes: the subfigure shows an example of acidic soil areas defined by the World Reference Base for Soil Resources; the scatterplot shows the salt content of soil samples in five climate regions. A ...

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UN's COP16 talks on land use, desertification start To discuss toughening up legal obligations of states Private sector investment crucial, UN executive says RIYADH, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Restoring the ...

Ninety-five per cent of the food we eat is grown directly or indirectly from soil. Today, however, this essential natural resource is threatened by many forms of land degradation. According to the ...

Curbing soil degradation is critical to the food security and ecological sustainability of the Caribbean— yet unsustainable land management practices, coupled with the pressures of climate change ...

How do people adapt to the effects of land degradation? Are there responses that prove to be more resilient than others, for both humans and nature? As land uses and land quality around the world ...

A map predicts 95 per cent of America's soil will be degraded in less than 30 years. Only a 5 percent area is marked not degraded, in an illustration by the Save Soil movement, which shows all other ...

Dr Mlungele M. Nsikani receives funding from and is a Senior Scientist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute. Furthermore, Dr Nsikani is an Extraordinary Lecturer at Stellenbosch ...