Tajikistan ranks among the world’s most vulnerable countries to land degradation, according to a November report from the U.N ...
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 ...
Land decay is undermining the well-being of two-fifths of all the people on Earth, or around 3.2 billion people, according to an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...
Land degradation undermining Earth’s capacity to sustain humanity; Failure to reverse it will pose challenges for generations; 7 of 9 planetary boundaries are negatively impacted by unsustainable land ...
While some scientists are working to find a resolution, more needs to be done. New study uncovers 'silent crisis' affecting over 1 billion people: 'We must act decisively' first appeared on The Cool ...
March 27 (UPI) --Most climate science focuses on the atmosphere and the ocean, but a new report puts the health of Earth's land front and center -- and the diagnosis isn't good. According to the first ...
On Tuesday, 20 September 2011, all Member States are invited to participate at the highest political level in the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on the theme, “Addressing desertification, land ...
Elisabeth Ilboudo-Nébié receives funding from Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University (2019-20). She also received the Polgar Award for outstanding work in applied anthropology ...
The training, held at the Senegambia Beach Hotel, brought together Gambian environmental professionals and technical experts ...
17 June 2018, Quito, Ecuador–More than 3.2 billion people, or 2 in every 5 people, are impacted by land degradation today and up to 143 million people could move within their countries by 2050 to ...
We all know that land degradation and salinity are some of the biggest environmental problems that Australia faces. Currently in Queensland alone, around 100 times more trees are being cleared than ...