The United Nations' ongoing COP17 conference in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, is once again bringing together an array of countries ...
Desertification is not the spread of deserts. It is the slow degradation of fertile land – a process that now affects 40 ...
Extreme weather across much of Europe and elsewhere is lending added weight to the United Nations Convention to Combat ...
Extreme weather has raised the significance of Cop17 talks starting this week on tackling drought and land degradation ...
Microbes Can Predict Desertification Before Plants Start To Die. Microbial ecology (the study of how tiny microbes interact ...
As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities, and rising seas are erasing territories. One environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degradation of the land ...
The UN-sponsored Conference of the Parties, attended by 196 countries, has got underway in Ulaanbaatar. Soil degradation and ...
La santé des sols sera au cœur des débats de la COP17 Désertification alors que l'enjeu devient également central pour les ...
For half a century, workers in northern China have been using a technique called "straw checkerboards" to combat desertification.
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