Modi bats for South-South ties, plastic ban at UNCCD meet

PM raises land reclamation target to 26 mln hectares by 2030

Soil resources mapped

A 'common' problem

In a quarry

Goa pays a price for unchecked mining, says a study

ETHIOPIA

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

Desertification has increased in 90 per cent of states in India

Increased drying of soil will further precipitate the agrarian crisis in the country

Cleaning up Mt Everest

Tax the rich and help the poor survive

Bleak future

Farakka barrage flayed

Going overboard with development?

A new project seeks to examine the environmental degradation due to development in Kochi

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 

World status of land degradation

On a felling spree

Fund source

Identified to curb land blight

India losing biodiversity hotspots

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

Land degradation makes containing floods and droughts tough

Water erosion accounts for more than 50 per cent of total degraded area in India

Simply Put: Road to perdition

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