How India lost its finest Banni grasslands to an exotic species called Prosopis Juliflora
Simply Put: COP 14 Combat desertification
UNCCD COP14: Desertification, land degradation hit poor hardest
Climate change drives migration but many can’t even move out: Report
Modi bats for South-South ties, plastic ban at UNCCD meet
PM raises land reclamation target to 26 mln hectares by 2030
100 million hectares of arable land lost yearly to degradation, shows UN report
Eastern and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean regions experience the most severe degradation
Invest $1.7 trillion in nature-based solutions to adapt to climate change: UNCCD report
The investment would give four times the return on investment, it said
Strong nexus between land use and drought: UNCCD report
It also called for the management of land and drought to be fundamentally linked
Shadow of storms
The fact is that storms of 2018 hold a mirror to our future
Simply Put: Vladimir’s deterrent
In 4 years, India lost over 30 million hectares of healthy land to degradation: UN data
This is almost 10% of all the country's entire landmass
India’s northeastern states desertifying most rapidly
Half of Nagaland is degraded, flags new report
Desertification in India: Canal, tubewells make saline Jaisalmer green
Increasing agricultural activity reversed soil erosion in the district
Delhi Declaration might downplay international finance institutions’ role in mitigating desertification
A key paragraph has been proposed for deletion in the draft declaration
Despite PM Modi’s assurance, land degradation, desertification increasing
Some 29.7 per cent of India’s land is degraded, according to a new ISRO atlas
Desertification in India: A livestock keeper says how his stock has plummeted
‘I dream of gardens in the desert sand, I wake in vain’
Desertification in India: Less snow, more rain ail Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur
Water guzzling apple orchards and rampant tourism is affecting the state
Desertification in India: Mining monstrous for Goa, but urbanisation digs a bigger hole
Lack of planning has potential of becoming the biggest degrader of land in Goa
Land degradation a major threat but avoidable. So why the inaction
'None of the countries have set numerical targets for land degradation neutrality'
COVID-19: The world scrambles for food
The Indian government announced a Rs 1.7-lakh crore package for the poor and needy
Silent Chernobyl: Dry Aral Sea has made Central Asia dustier, with impacts on global climate, says study
Not only does the dust of the Aralkum Desert left in place of the Aral endanger residents, it also can accelerate the melting of glaciers …