Areas that have experience both droughts and poor soil will notice the water evaporate at a faster rate. As bodies of water begin to dry, the land begins to turn into a desert. The land is no longer ...

is the process of land turning into desert as the quality of the soil declines over time. The main causes of desertification include: ...

A new review of current research into combating desertification, published in Earth-Science Reviews, has identified soil microbes as critical to this mission. Waqar Islam, an Associate Professor ...

"Even if governments don’t always understand, it’s already here." Scientists issue worrying warning about the world's ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

is the process of land turning into desert as the quality of the soil declines over time. Many countries around the world suffer from the problems caused by desertification but it is the Sahel ...

In a recent Rajya Sabha response, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh cited the Desertification and Land Degradation Atlas of India (2021) by the ...

The people of Arequipa face many challenges to their sustainable use of soil and water resources; contamination from past and current mineral resource extraction activities, inadequate management ...

Tengrinews.kz - Mazhilis deputy Bakytzhan Bazarbek has raised concerns about desertification in Kazakhstan. On February 18, a ...

Agro-ecologist Nicole Masters says some regions here facing drought do need a re-think on how the soil is treated ...

Aridity is silently spreading through many of the world’s cocoa-producing regions. There are steps we can take to save them.

To combat the brewing drought and desertification, the African Union developed the Great Green Wall Initiative in 2007. The ...