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 …