Africa dramatically dried out 5,500 years ago — our new study may warn us of future climate tipping points
Before northern Africa dried out, its climate “flickered” between two stable climatic states before tipping permanently
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 …
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
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
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: ‘Droughts reduced India’s GDP by up to 5% in 20 years’
The world has a new ‘water-scarce’ generation growing up, with women and girls spending as much as 40% of their calorific intake …
Desertification: Food systems under scrutiny as 12 million Ha of lands lost annually
The Conference of Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification started May 9 to chalk out plans to restore 1 billion Ha of …
World Day To Combat Desertification 2023: My job is to communicate complex issues involving land, Ricky Kej to DTE
The three-time Grammy Award recipient has been striving to highlight the need to pay attention to and reverse the growing trends of land …
Land degradation in India hurts farmers and forest dwellers the most
More than half of the degraded land in the country is either rainfed farmland, responsible for the food security of the country, or forest land …
How to fight deseritification: Here’s what the 15th COP to UNCCD agreed on
UNCCD COP15 adopts 38 decisions, including on tenure, migration and gender, that highlight the role of land in addressing multiple crises
How prolonged conflicts left Libya vulnerable to climate change
Libya’s agriculture relies heavily on irrigation but climatic conditions are not conducive for good production
Native species over invasive: This Tamil Nadu village is a pioneer in climate action
Vast patches of wastelands in the region were invaded by the alien, invasive Karuvelam tree or prosopis juliflora
World Desertification Day 2023: Granting equal land rights to women can reduce world hunger significantly, says UN
Removing legal barriers to women owning land will help with soil health protection, notes United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
These warriors lead the way in greening degraded land; but they need more support
Uttarakhand government should encourage the greening efforts of the Indian Army soldiers and other such groups; financial support and timely …
Land the size of Central Asia lost since 2015 due to degradation
At this rate, restoring 1.5 billion hectares of land by 2030 will be necessary to achieve a land-degradation-neutral world
‘Blue marble’: How half a century of climate change has altered the face of the Earth
A photo taken by NASA in December 1972 has become an icon of the global environmental movement
