A new study led by Prof. Li Xiaosong from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

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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 degradation in the form of soil erosion, deforestation and crop nutrient mining are common in this area. These unsustainable land management practices are aggravated by periodic droughts and ...

Last week, Samarkand in Uzbekistan hosted an important intergovernmental conference on how to halt the creeping spread of degraded land. The country was aptly chosen: only about 800 kilometres from ...

Livestock farming is destroying our planet. It is a major cause of land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration, deforestation -- and of course, climate change.

With 32% of India’s land affected by degradation and 25% undergoing desertification, land degradation has become a major challenge that threatens the country’s environment, agricultural productivity, ...

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