A 2024 study by Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University showed that unusually dry layers of surface-level air in the region had ...

New York (Agenzia Fides) – Today is the World Day to Combat Desertification, as indicated by the United Nations, with the theme: “Combating Land Degradation for Sustainable Agriculture.” In 1994, the ...

ISLAMABAD: Increasing desertification is turning vast swatches of fertile land into parched areas and poses a risk to the global environmental sustainability. It is also creating socio-economic ...

Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which now ...

ISLAMABAD: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought will be marked on June 17 (Friday) across the globe including Pakistan to curb the desertification process and strengthen the visibility of ...

(Ana Paula Cunha, Researcher// National Disaster Alerts and Monitoring Center) “That area we’ve identified of 5,000 square kilometres (1,930 miles) will grow to 15,000 square kilometres (5,791 square ...

RAWALPINDI, June 16: Desertification has affected 43 million hectares of land and out of the total land area of 79.6 million hectares, only 16 million hectares are suitable for irrigated farming in ...

Nearly half of the Caatinga, the only exclusively Brazilian biome, has been destroyed and 13% of its territory has already been lost to desertification. A project at Rio Grande do Norte Federal ...

Strengthen the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, to address ...

Tree planting can help halt the loss of arable land to the encroaching desert A UN-led pilot scheme hopes to highlight how trees can help people in arid zone, considered to one of the most hostile ...